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    01-Aug-90  17:58:01
Sb: #5758-OSK - passwords?
Fm: Scott t. Griepentrog 72427,335
To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)

Your OSKer is on the way, I remember your name was in the last batch of 400 to
go out.

I am not really interested in creating a standard, and certainly not in
libraries.  The way I see it, programmers should create their own set of
library functions to suit themselves.  Of course, this leads to the problem of
giving sombody else your code, which is the whole reason for standards.

I prescribe to the standards, just not those using any C std i/o.  The standard
for that I/O is IMHO completely antiquated, and has almost always given me more
problems than going completely low level i/o.  Which is actually starting to
become more of a standard itself with things like .

I'm attacking the Unix standards because they're an annoyance.  If I was
writing only for Unix, okay then.  But I'm writing for OS9, where all this
formatted I/O is primarily wastful (again, IMHO).  But then, I can complain
about the techniques of the majority of programmers out there too.  I'm just
overly picky.  If it aint perfect (or nearly so), it aint good enough to use. 
Hey, I'm not even satisfied with OS9, but I use it because it's the best
available.  That just me, see...

StG