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Re: Porting Summary for Subversion 1.6.2 to OpenVOS 17.0

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_red-bean.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:41:20 -0500

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Green, Paul<Paul.Green_at_stratus.com> wrote:

> Thanks for creating and maintaining such a useful product.  As someone who
> has been writing software for 40+ years, I have to stay that Subversion has
> some of the cleanest code I've ever read or ported.

Thanks for the compliment. :-) I've always had the same feeling,
despite the DVCS nut-cases on reddit screaming about "what a mess" the
svn codebase is. (That particular insult seems to surface over and
over whenever something well-established is no longer considered cool,
and people espouse it even when they've never looked at the code.)

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