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From: Chris Morgan <mihalis@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Why C++ is successful?
Date: 1998/08/16
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nasser@apldbio.com writes:

> my ultimate goal is to one day write a program that will exactly meet
> the requirments and work as designed and never need to be changed and have
> no design bugs and all from the first time. I think for this I need 
> to spend about 99% time just thinking about it, and 1% to implement it :) 
> but I'll know I'll still miss something.

I got there once, just once. The program was very short, and in the
end nobody used it after all. I still think it's worth trying though.

Chris

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