Re: "Shared" procedure division code

In article <dct6pu$5bf$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Howard Brazee <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>On 3-Aug-2005, docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>> >Still, a suggestion that adding "I believe" to a "is stupid" clause should be
>> >accompanied by a statement of purpose - what benefit is gained.
>>
>> That depends on who is evaluating the benefit, Mr Brazee; some might say
>> that more precise speech is, in and of it'sself, a benefit.
>
>Precision isn't measured by the number of words being passed - it's measured by
>how effectively the data gets understood. Extra words do not make something
>precise unless more information was added. My argument is that no more
>information was added.

It appears that 'no more information was added' when one equates 'It is'
with 'I believe it is'; I do not believe that this equating is, by any
means, a universal phenomenon.

DD

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