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Subject: Re: Standard Library Interest?
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Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> wrote in
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> But we've been there and done that numerous times. That's why it needs
> some kind of "Official Standing" and probably some high level of 
> integration, consistency, orthogonality, documentation, etc., etc. 
> *Anybody* can pull together a bunch of existing stuff from the
> internet. Getting it accepted as "The Thing" requires something more.

I haven't been there :) Could you name a couple examples? And what did go 
wrong that it didn't get accepted?

CBL