Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > of course.. > > > > New functionality vs POLA. An age old conflict. > > Isn't POLA the reason why people gave up trying to extend the old standards > (like syslogd and inetd) and decided to build new feature-rich daemons like > msyslog and xinetd?
People apparently keep confusing "POLA" with "PONA" -- the "Principle Of No Astonishment". The purpose of POLA is to suppress unnecessary changes, not suppress necessary changes. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
