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- From: M.E.Bennun@CEN.EX.AC.UK
- Subject: Re: Deprovements, etc.
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- In-Reply-To: <19453.9212181932@cen.ex.ac.uk>; from "robert kelly F" at Dec 18,
- 92 2:29 pm
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- robert kelly F wrote........
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- >
- >
- > >In our department, we have a saying: "If it is not neccessary to
- > >change, it is necessary __NOT__ to change."
- >
- > Mervyn, I'm ashamed of you. If we had all taken this approach, there would
- > have been no NB 1 or 2 or 3, let alone 4. After all, computers, let alone
- > e-mail networks, are hardly necessary changes; the world of academia did
- > fine with typewriters and mimeographs, or with a nice stylus and parchment
- > for all that. Granted that NB 4 is not The-Reign-of-God-on-Earth, it beats
- > a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
- >
- > --
- >
-
- Ah, Bob.... but something demonstrably better creates a problem by its
- existence, and it becomes necessary to change accordingly in order to
- solve it!
-
- NB4 is as you say; but it is also better than NB3. My problem is not
- the whole, but parts thereof where change seems to have been of
- uncertain value. But Ken Salzberg demonstrates that I stand on ground
- less firm than I thought.
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- Mervyn E. Bennun, Law Department, University of Exeter
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