🚀 go-pugleaf

	I used to work for a person who was impossible to get
a paper past.  I didn't know it at the time, but this man was
a true, blue, genuine genius.  Anyway, I would write up a short
informal tech note and try to get him to let it through.  It
always came back with a bunch of changes.  Things like, "What
does this word mean?".  I got hot and said it was well known to
those in the know.  My assumption was that my audience was of
my peers who worked daily with the same things I did.
	My ex-boss would hypothesize that some manager would
read this and *not* know the jargon, and would be confused
or mislead by my note.  Etc., Etc., Etc.,!
	However
	by the time I made the changes he wanted, any reasonably
bright manager (If there is such) could probably follow it.
	Further, 
	even those conversant in the topic would get more from it
for less effort than my first attempt.
	The Point of all this is that peer review, when well done,
is really useful, and improves the productt.  Even my immense ego
had to concede that there are times when some lesser being can have
an improvement to one of my ideas.  Not likely, but possible.
	*Assuming* benevolence and competance on the part of the
reviewers, I suggest that the delay is worthwhile for the probable
improvement of the program.
	What apparently is really needed is more reviewers.  
	Note that I did *not* volunteer.
	Bart

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