[bitc-dev] Moose, rugs, and separate compilation

[Mark Miller]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <shap at eros-os.com> wrote:
> Xerox PARC had a wonderful expression: "the moose under the rug",
> which is to say: the big issue that nobody wants to talk about.

Origin is Robin Hanson, from a conversation at Xanadu. We had just
swept some particular point under the rug. Robin said "I think you
just swept a moose under that rug." It stuck.

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    Cheers,
    --MarkM