RE: API's & Compiling to Prev Release

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Couldn't have said it better myself.  Great quote.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Svalgaard [mailto:leif@leif.org]
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 9:11 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Cc: hallp@ssax.com
> Subject: Re: API's & Compiling to Prev Release
> 

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> 
> Sigh; as C.C.Lewis has stated (as quoted by Feb Brooks about
> some previous IBM software):
> 
> That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - 
> civilizations are
> built up -
> excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes 
> wrong. Some
> fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the 
> top, and then it
> all
> slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. 
> It sems to
> start
> up all right and then runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.
> 
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