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  1. Xref: sparky alt.irc:4048 alt.irc.ircii:160
  2. Newsgroups: alt.irc,alt.irc.ircii
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!hucke
  4. From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
  5. Subject: Re: Keep the flood.
  6. Message-ID: <BxIvsu.D65@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
  7. Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  8. References: <1992Nov9.212604.25539@ra.oc.com> <1992Nov10.115138.27036@ugle.unit.no> <BxIotn.BpI@access.digex.com>
  9. Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:57:52 GMT
  10. Lines: 17
  11.  
  12. In article <1992Nov10.115138.27036@ugle.unit.no> gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) writes:
  13. )Now try this:
  14. )/on -list * list
  15. )and then
  16. )/list
  17. )
  18. )Now have some fun for yourself, trying to figure out why the hell IRC has
  19. )been so badly programmed.
  20.  
  21. This doesn't mean ircii has been badly programmed.  It's possible to do
  22. stupid things in any language.  I would rather have a language allow
  23. flexibility (and the possibility of mistakes) than a "bondage & discipline
  24. language".  Would you prefer to have ircii crippled so that idiots couldn't
  25. shoot themselves in the foot?
  26. -- 
  27. Laws are for other people.
  28. hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
  29.