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Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> how do you convince 
> skeptics that the results are the same (or at least very close to the same)? 

You create that change of business which splits 
languages into “legacy” and “lessons learned”.

Look around you.

One question to ask is, “If we drop X, then
what’s the gain?”