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People with actual jobs who need to get them done don't use undocumented
parts of APIs because they knew that will screw them the next time they
need to get actual work done.
Do it right or do it over.

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 4:35 PM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:

>
> On Sep 11, 2015, at 2:20 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
> >
> >> I believe that what DJ is saying is that you should feel free to do
> >> that, but if he changes the API and your software stops working,
> >> that's not going to keep him awake at night.
> >
> > Yes, that.
> >
> > *Especially* if you went out of your way to bypass the published API
> > and dig into the unpublished internals.
> >
>
> And you don=E2=80=99t understand that this is a cause for worry for users=
 who have
> actual jobs that need to get done?
>
> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
> jpd AT noqsi DOT com
>
>
>
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr">People with actual jobs who need to get them done don&#39;=
t use undocumented parts of APIs because they knew that will screw them the=
 next time they need to get actual work done.<div>Do it right or do it over=
.</div></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On F=
ri, Sep 11, 2015 at 4:35 PM, John Doty <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mai=
lto:jpd AT noqsi DOT com" target=3D"_blank">jpd AT noqsi DOT com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br=
><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1=
px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
On Sep 11, 2015, at 2:20 PM, DJ Delorie &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:dj AT delorie DOT co=
m">dj AT delorie DOT com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; I believe that what DJ is saying is that you should feel free to d=
o<br>
&gt;&gt; that, but if he changes the API and your software stops working,<b=
r>
&gt;&gt; that&#39;s not going to keep him awake at night.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Yes, that.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; *Especially* if you went out of your way to bypass the published API<b=
r>
&gt; and dig into the unpublished internals.<br>
&gt;<br>
<br>
And you don=E2=80=99t understand that this is a cause for worry for users w=
ho have actual jobs that need to get done?<br>
<br>
John Doty=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Noqsi Aerospace, =
Ltd.<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.noqsi.com/" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http=
://www.noqsi.com/</a><br>
<a href=3D"mailto:jpd AT noqsi DOT com">jpd AT noqsi DOT com</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div>

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