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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Package reformatting tool availability
Date: 1999/09/13
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In article <7ree14$t3h@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>,
  Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Yikes!!!!!!   Fifty types per package?  Therein lies a
uparalleled
> opportunity for keeping maintenance programmers secure in
their jobs
> for a very long time.


Hmmm! I don't like even *suggesting* that a simple numeric
criterion is appropriate.

Two is too many if the types are unrelated and would be better
off in separate packages.

Fifty or more may be fine if they are somehow a coherent set of
related types.


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