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Re: cl-generic misdesign (was: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el,


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: cl-generic misdesign (was: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation)
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 01:03:58 -0400

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  > > Unfortunately we need to know because we have to deal with your
  > > misdesign of those features and language constructs.

I am sorry he said that to you.  Those words were uncalled-for.

None of us is perfect, and none of us has time to consider every
contingency.  So every program we write has shortcomings (and bugs,
too).  If people use the program a lot, they will use it in ways we
did not imagine, and sometimes it won't handle them well.

C'est la programmation.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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