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From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Martin Waitz wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 05:10:56PM +0100, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> > If ET il faster than LT, tell people to stop whining and to learn
> > the API. Otherwise choose LT, mainly because of 2), but also
> > because ET API is more subtle bug prone.
>
> in some situations, ET simply has wrong semantics.

IMO ET has perfectly nice semantics. The fact that ppl fail to understand
it does not make it automatically wrong. If things not understood would
have been flagged as wrong, we would be still living in caves.



- Davide

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