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#Lattice vs. Manx

    10-May-90 15:11:41
Sb: #103708-#Lattice vs. Manx
Fm: Vic Wagner 76046,3004
To: Syndesis 76004,1763
John, I wasn't suggesting that Manx was 'some hack' (I'll leave that to Ben). Nor was I decrying the 'difficulty' of maintaining version control on a product (although my experiences in the past with LARGE projects indicate that it IS a hassle). I was just attempting to point out that Nature has already given us a mechanism for 'automatically incrementing' a number to be used for revisions. We even consider this mechanism SO useful that we make it virtually automatic on all computers in use today. The mechanism is 'time' (and of course, the date). I fail to see the significance of a revision system which uses numbers like 5.04 in preference to numbers like 900510.1909. Victor A. Wagner, Jr. "Time is Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."