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From: Bryce Bardin <BBardin@westdat.com>
Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/05/28
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Rich Miller wrote:

> Not to beat a dead horse -- but you might reflect on the grace and
> endurance of Europe's numerous, many-centuries-old cathedrals.
> 

However, you might also take note that those graceful flying buttresses
were invented to cure the problem of wind loading causing the high thin
walls of the first cathedral designs to fall down.

Bryce Bardin