Re: ncat 5.10BETA handling of -l -p is not compatible with nc-1.10

[Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux () googlemail com>]

On Sunday 10 January 2010 09:47, Kris Katterjohn wrote:
> > Do you understand why compatibility is important?
>
> Do you understand why convenience is important?  We as authors and users
> shouldn't be stuck with command arguments from over a decade ago

You answered my question. You do not understand why compatibility
is important. Thank God other depelopers do, and, for example,
coreutils dd is not going to become "more convenient" and ditch
its "stupid and non-standard" if=FILE style parameters.

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