Cart
[Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries]
Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote: > > .... > > > To micro-optimize in advance for every conceivable use case? > >To design for the hardest > > problems no matter what the cost in usability or popularity? > > No. Your (and other's) assertion is that you should design for the > mainstream, and that we should use the "mainstream" technologies that > exist. I've never said such a thing. You're swinging at a straw man. I was an advocate of XML when it was called SGML and Python when most of the Python programmers on the planet knew each other by name. I am still contacted regularly for people who thank me for my help on explaining DSSSL and groves to them. I don't embrace technologies because they are mainstream! I propose to use HTTP for web services type things because I've researched its design[1] and recognized that it is better designed for these applications than the technologies being developed today with considerably less thought and understanding. This thinking is not mainstream. Paul Prescod [1] http://www.ebuilt.com/fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm
|
