OCD programmers and backwards compatibility :-).

[Les Mikesell]

Tim wrote:
> It seems that arrogance goes hand in hand with programmers.  After all,
> if they didn't think that they could do something better than someone
> else, they wouldn't write the program.
>
>   
Which is especially bizarre in a system whose original intent, and the 
reason many
people want to use it, is to emulate another well-known system specified 
long
ago.

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  Les Mikesell
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