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Ben Eisenbraun wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 02:12:33PM -0400, Martin Owens wrote: >> What is the programmers term: accept incorrectly formatted data but >> always try to output correctly formatted data. > > I always liked the quote from RFC 791, the Internet Protocol RFC: > > "In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending > behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior." This 'robustness principle' by Jon Postel has been getting some seriously bad press lately: http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[hidden email]) Linux Brain Dump - Linux Notes, HOWTOs and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbraindump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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