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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: why not
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Depends on if its Stuff That Sucks, or Stuff Thats Cool. :-)

I'd agree that "Algorithms" sounds just about like "Stuff" - here's this bag
for all the unrelated things we couldn't find a place for. However, there
are often things that may have nothing more in common than they operate on
some particular data structure. Maybe it just needs to be lived with.... Or
have a Big Giant Package Spec that defines every conceivable operation on a
data structure.

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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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> hurts where it is, and I don't like the idea of a lot of single routine
child
> packages, or of one "extra stuff that you don't need often" child package.
(To
> me "algorithms" is about as general as "stuff"). I like my packages to
have at