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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Beginer problem: variable array size
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 11:19:06 -0400
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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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> tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> And further yet, why do you think you get to rewrite the
> given requirements just because they don't suit the style of
> your favorite programming language?
>

hmm... I don't think Tom's is advocating that requirements should be
rewritten to accommodate a programming language.  I believe he was stating
that sometimes it is valid to rewrite requirements given known constraints
of the problem.

-CRM