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Re:Three's Company (Why three co-founders is better than two.) by btilly on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @05:20PM (#949272)
If there is a single best way to build a bridge, then why do we have so many different types of bridges being built?

There are many different good ways to build bridges, with trade-offs between them, and knowing about them lets engineers to pick the best way to build a particular bridge.

Re:Three's Company (Why three co-founders is better than two.) by derefr on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @08:22PM (#949532)
I do believe that was what the parent said. There's no best bridge (or, say, best hash data structure), but there is a best procedure to create a given one.