* [ 11-04-05 - 09:14 ] Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote: > ISTM that the good reason for writing-from-scratch duplicate > functionality is if you have a Better Idea (better data structures, > better interfaces, extra functionality, etc, etc) that are so > fundamental that You Can't Get There From Here by patching existing > code. Everybody agrees here, but (AFAIK) this is not the situation we are discussing. No 'Better Ideas' in linda. ciao, ema