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On Dec 13, 2012, at 5:10 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:

> 
>> The lack of this sort of simple, commonsense organizing principle
>> seems to me at the root of what I find so confusing about pcb. So,
>> instead of having a trivial way to rigorously identify shorts, pcb
>> will wind up with yet another complicated, unreliable,
>> incomprehensible heuristic.
> 
> Again, please stop using such emotionally charged words.  Your
> constant assumption that the developers are incompetent

Why on Earth would you think I assume that? Please do not read more into my comments than is there.

> and that our
> efforts are doomed,

Why would I post if I thought that?

> Also, we've discussed net-tagging before, and it is not even close to
> "trivial".
> 

Can you explain why not?

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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