Re: Are frozen files really that hot?

Daniel Goldman <[email protected]> Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:46:23 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.m4.general
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> Very diplomatically worded. A 30% improvement in a rarely used
> feature hardly justifies the extra burden on maintainers and
> even less the burden on readers of the manual. Would that we
> had such good data on the true cost of programming clutter as
> Daniel has given us about one potential benefit of clutter.
>
> +1 for deprecation.
>
> Doug McIlroy

Thank you.