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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: There has got to be a better way...
Date: 1999/04/26
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* paul_rudin@scientia.com
| At the risk of rehashing old ground: what is "unnecessary" waste is
| partly a matter of opinion.  The space and/or time efficiency of lots of
| code can be improved on.  The question is how much effort one wants to
| invest in doing so.

  I can understand why you cons up new articles with the same old defense
  for the same old unskilled Lisp style rather than reuse existing defenses
  by reference...

#:Erik