From mboosten@best.ms.philips.com Sun Oct 31 15:49:10 2004
From: M_Boosten <mboosten@best.ms.philips.com>
To: java-threads@ukc.ac.uk, occam-com@ukc.ac.uk
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 15:52:19 +0200 (MEST)
Message-ID: <200107261352.PAA25448@tigran>

Peter and others,

Peter wrote:
> If we had "experimental", I'd not hesitate to include it!

Incremental Refinement is fundamental in succesful R&D.
Establish the cycle: (theory ; practice ; interaction)*
or in our situation (csp; jcsp; cpa)* :-)

By not having "experimental", you break the cycle.  You
place formality above contents.  This is fundamentally
wrong.

Peter:
> It's just the difficulty of making the "is-it-
> really-necessary" judgement ... we keep getting it wrong!!

Indeed.
Solution: introduce "experimental" status right now.

Peter wrote:
> Peter.

What about: "> peter"  :-)

marcel