Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 13:58:27 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pppd vs ijppp Message-ID: <199601112058.NAA18141@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199601112012.PAA00249@etinc.com> from "dennis" at Jan 11, 96 03:12:29 pm
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> >To put it in a single aphorism: anything that works is better than > >anything that doesn't. You may recognize this as a reformulation of > >Occam's Razor, the guiding principle of "The Scientific Method". > > Of course, the truly arrogant believe that they can make ANYTHING > work....so the question bouces back to which is the best way to do > it. Presupposing the superiority of one way or the other. Not necessarily a valid assumption. 8-). If you ask a good software engineer "Cany you write this?", the answer will always be "yes". This isn't arrogance; if something can be imagined, and it doesn't violate any physical laws, it can be built. Where you have to worry is how long of a delay there is between when you ask the question and when you get your "yes". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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