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  1. Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Sat, 16 Jan 1993 06:00:16 MST
  2. Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 05:59:45 MST
  3. From: "Ralph Griswold" <ralph>
  4. Message-Id: <199301161259.AA02671@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
  5. To: goer@midway.uchicago.EDU, icon-group
  6. Subject: endtab/detab
  7. Status: R
  8. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
  9.  
  10. I'll be interested in seeing what response there is to your suggestion
  11. for removing entab() and detab() from Icon.
  12.  
  13. However, once you have a large user community and widely distributed
  14. documentation, it's not feasible to remove something, even if it's
  15. little used.  Worse, it's not feasible to redesign something that
  16. was done badly.  That's one of the reasons language design is so
  17. hard; once you've done it, implemented it, documented it, and
  18. released it, you're stuck with it.
  19.     
  20. Ralph E. Griswold            ralph@cs.arizona.edu
  21. Department of Computer Science          uunet!arizona!ralph
  22. The University of Arizona        602-621-6609 (voice)
  23. Tucson, AZ 85721            602-621-9618   (fax)
  24.