Re: An attempt (probably in vain)

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From: Charles Geyer
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1992 17:29

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In article <1992Jan19.210036.11183@alphalpha.com> nazgul@alphalpha.com
(Kee Hinckley) writes:

> Or are you implying that the current situation results in many
> programmers duplicating effort?

Isn't this well known?  Isn't at least 90% of all programming activity
reinventing the wheel?  And most of the rest building customer-hostile
features that attempt to prevent the customer from using products from
other vendors?

-- 
Charles Geyer
School of Statistics
University of Minnesota
charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu

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