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From: "David Starner" <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org>
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Subject: Re: Proving Correctness (was Java Portability)
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Martin Cordic wrote in message news:tn6225iggb0u78@corp.supernews.com...
> 1) The three of us that worked on this all had an interest in statistics
and
> could have made use of the statistics code that resulted.
>
> 2) I rather felt that the whole group was spending lots of time arguing
over
> the data structure-ish stuff and didn't want to get bogged down in that.
My
> personal reaction was to think: "O.K. I'll go take on this niche that the
> rest of the group doesn't have as much interest in. We will come up with
> something that we agree looks like "A Good Start" The rest of the group
will
> be presented with it and its a done-deal. No point arguing over it - there
> it is and it works. Why not accept it?

I understand. I started working on a Unicode library, Ngeadal, for similar
reasons. It's moribund now; I'm planning on officially calling it dead once
I get one piece of algorithimic skill done that may impress and be useful to
other Unicode hackers.

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David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
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