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  • From: Elliotte Harold <erharold AT gmail.com>
  • To: Thomas Hicks <hickst AT theriver.com>
  • Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Exposing XMLHandler
  • Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:52:02 -0400

Thomas Hicks wrote:
I used to work for Ralph Griswold, the creator of the SNOBOL
and Icon programming languages. Whenever someone would
program something particularly unusual or suspect Ralph would
remark "Well, we're just in the business of selling rope. If they
want to hang themselves, that's their business."
cheers,
-tom


All I can say is, XOM's philosophy is very different. Not that you can't hang yourself with it, but I want to make it very, very hard to do so.


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