Neil Hodgson nhodgson at bigpond.net.au
Fri Jan 4 18:38:00 EST 2002

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Terry Reedy:

> It strikes me (and the Governor) as scandelous that so-called
> professionals would spend so much time endlessly designing and never
> produce anything that worked and was useful.

   Some problems are *really* hard. Diseconomies of scale doom some projects
to failure. I bet the cause here was accomodation of legacy infrastructure.

   Neil

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