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<P>-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: Greg Lindahl <lindahl@pbm.com> <BR><BR>> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:47:41PM +0000, richard.walsh@comcast.net wrote: <BR>> <BR>> > I think that the number of real-world apps in this class is perhaps <BR>> > not large, or there would be more hybrid code. <BR>> <BR>> Ah, but you've missed the random element here: People start writing <BR>> hybrid code before they have any proof that it helps them. Or they <BR>> don't write it at all because they know it's complicated. Either way, <BR>> you can't assume cause and effect of "hybrid helps me" and "my code <BR>> is hybrid". </P>
<P>True, enough ... one must consider both the kinetic and thermodynamic requirements for existence, but I was thinking that the system was perhaps at equilibrium by now. Still, it was careless of me to use non-existence to argue for either the absense of cause or presence of impossibility. I am still waiting to get a straight flush in 5-card draw.</P>
<P>;-)</P>
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