Re: CFD: XMLification of NOTES

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des_at_des.no)
Date: 03/31/04

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    To: Alex Keahan <alex@hightemplar.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:48:44 +0200

    Alex Keahan <alex@hightemplar.com> writes:
    > On Wednesday 31 Mar 2004 1:54 am, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
    > > Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org> writes:
    > > > Strange. IMO LINT was existed for exactly this reason
    > > Your opinion does not matter. The purpose of LINT is to cover as much
    > > code as possible. Why do you think it's called LINT?
    > Why doesn't his opinion matter?

    Because this is a question of fact, not of opinion. Alexey's opinion
    of what NOTES might be useful for does not change the fact of what it
    was created for.

    > Perhaps my opinion does not matter either, but as a developer and
    > long-time FreeBSD user, I don't think that XMLification of NOTES is
    > such a bad idea.

    that is not what "your opinion does not matter" referred to.

    DES 

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