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Subject:Re: Microsoft Style w/data From:Daniel Wise <dewise -at- IX -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 31 May 1997 01:00:17 -0500
Colleagues,
Miscosoft's dictum *never* to use datum may work in the SW/HW world, but it
cannot be used as gospel in the technical world. Datum is still used in a few
specialized ways, such as *a datum line* in surveying and/or geology.
I have learned over the years to be highly suspicious of dogma.
Dan Wise
dewise -at- ix -dot- netcom -dot- com
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