[ale] Should filesystems have undelete (was Get paid for undelete on ext3help)

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joseph A. Knapka)]

Irv Mullins wrote:
> 
> But wait - even that misadventure wasn't a disaster. Since I had to re-create
> the program from scratch, I was able to incorporate a lot of things I had
> learned while writing the first version. The result was a new program which
> was shorter, cleaner, and faster that the original. Probably with fewer bugs.
> A program which I might never have written if the previous version
> had been available. I wouldn't be surprised if the time spent re-writing will
> be more than offset by time saved in maintaining that program.

And the moral of -this- story is that all developers should
have a daemon running on their system that occasionally deletes
a random swath of source code.... I'll get right on it.

:-)))

-- Joe
  "I'd rather chew my leg off than maintain Java code, which
   sucks, 'cause I have a lot of Java code to maintain and
   the leg surgery is starting to get expensive." - Me

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