The Don Maslin Software Archive

[Dwight K. Elvey]

>From: "Al Kossow" <aek at spies.com>
>
> > A collector collects.  A packrat accumulates.
> >
>
>Collect and accumulate are synonyms.
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>"Collect" in this context implies some order and method to the aquisition.
>
>Being a packrat is to gather things randomly, then to hoard what has 
>been gathered.
>


Ok Al, about where do you rate yourself. I'm about 60% packrat and
40% collector.
Dwight