A better self

[holger krekel]

James Ashley wrote:
> In article <ahnh7h$77p$0 at 216.39.172.122>, Bengt Richter wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:34:33 GMT, Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:
> >>should coding in lower levels be considered (on the other
> >>hand, protectionist legislation shouldn't be considered even then,
> >>but that's another issue:-).
> >>
> > What are you protecting with that "shouldn't"? ;-)
> 
> Perhaps that was a "generally, any sane person won't, but sometimes 
> bueracracies insist upon insanity" kind of generalization?
> > 
> > ISTM everyone believes in protectionism, only differing in their
> > ideas of what to protect and how to do it ;-)
> 
> ROFL...nicely said.  I've thought up a few responses to this, and I'm
> curious about your answer to them all, but they all seem to whirl around
> politics rather than software development, and, therefore, are even more
> off-topic than I'm willing to get on this sort of forum.

Don't bother.  This thread is already ridicously long and anyone still 
reading it has probably gotten to a very open mental self.state 

    self.regards()