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From: tap@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Thomas A Peterson)
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Subject: Re: was compiler bashing
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Date: 13 Aug 90 21:26:38 GMT
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In-reply-to: vladimir@prosper's message of 13 Aug 90 18:50:00 GMT
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=You know, at a certain point one has to decide, "Do I prefer to be right, or
=do I prefer to be effective?"  I think that what Karl is saying (pardon me if
=I put words into his mouth), is if you want to be effective, 
=
=	G O    D I R E C T L Y    T O    T H E    V E N D O R
=
=What part of the previous line don't you understand?

Some of us are tired of going to the vendor. We wish to notify other
users about the problems we have been experiencing and force the
vendor to fix the compiler via this coercive action.  I am certain
that my current Ada vendor would much rather port their system to a
new platform to get yet more unsuspecting customers than fix the
mistakes that exist in the current compiler.

Tom