>> I, personally, happen to have more faith in Paul Vixie and the team
>> that works on BIND and named -- specifically, in their ability to
>> produce reliable, well-tested, portable, well-thought-out software,
>> than in someone who advocates following standards, simply (as far as I
>> can see) for the sake of following standards.

>Given all the bugs in named, I find that pretty astonishing.
[...]
>We might as well abandon GNU C and NetBSD entirely and use
>Microsoft Visual C++ on MS-DOS, since those are the Systems of Choice among
>the vast majority of people who can't imagine anything beyond their own
>experience...

I'm compelled to point out that Visual C++ won't let you fail to
return a type when a return type is declared...  ;-)

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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