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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
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