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Subject:dis and data From:Loren Castro <lfc -at- SOL -dot- CHINALAKE -dot- NAVY -dot- MIL> Date:Tue, 19 Sep 1995 13:20:23 -0700
I've been gone, and it seems that I left some unfinished business.
Yes, here it is in the Beat the Dead Horse Department.
Here's the way it is with me: When I write a software document,
I want my words to mean the same a few years down the line when the
maintenance programmers take over as they do now. So "dis" that.