Re: Container libraries

["Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" <aek@vib.usr.pu.ru>]

Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:
>... Similarly, in the former USSR, people did not have to worry about which
>brand of butter to buy - if they had one, they were happy.
This is too imprecise a statement. Certainly, people even in the former USSR
were not happy with bad butter, even if they coudn't ... not exactly "buy",
but rather "obtain" or "find" another. The truth is that there were few sorts
of butter, and they were *ordered* in their quality. For example, everbody
knew that "Vologodskoe" (named after city of Vologda) was the best.
  So, although it is true that people in former the USSR had much less to decide
about common things, it was mostly caused not by deficit itself, but by stable
and well-known ordering/ranking in quality.


Alexander Kopilovitch                      aek@vib.usr.pu.ru
Saint-Petersburg
Russia