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Re:Paul Graham's kind of dirty (On Unicode support as an exe... by axod on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @01:49PM (#106969)
OK, he's giving us a car with a wooden chassis. Might be a great car, fun to drive. But it will probably need the chassis replacing unless you want to crash.
Re:Paul Graham's kind of dirty (On Unicode support as an exe... by koolmoe on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @04:01PM (#107065)
It's more like he gave you a scalpel, a tool that's great - even indispensible - for a specific set of cutting tasks, but that might leave you disappointed if you chose to use it for cutting down a tree.

Except that scalpels aren't really all that extensible.

See, I told you it was a black hole...