Ahouca.105 net.misc utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!houxi!houxg!lime!houca!rg Tue May 4 13:25:31 1982 programming made easy Does anyone know of any good reasons why everybody should not program using go:del numbers? Think of the reliability and *productivity* to be gained! In order to program "csh" I would just have to find its go:del number in my current issue of "Go:del's Guide". There seems to be a great savings in transmission times of sources over the net. I can transmit 9776756657543300815 instead of the entire text of a program (By the way that is the go:del number of rogue version 5.2). The possibilities are enormous. There would be no issues of portability since (once a common encoding/decoding function is agreed upon (say an ANSI standard)) we could just exchange the go:del numbers of programs and have them work on any machine. Ray houca!rg ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.