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Re: Reality check needed ....

• To: bill.dehora@p...
• Subject: Re: Reality check needed ....
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:17:35 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: tpassin@c... ('Thomas B. Passin'), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <003901c23e18$48813640$1fc8c8c8@mitchum> from "Bill de hÓra" at Aug 07, 2002 02:42:02 PM

=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bill_de_h=D3ra?= scripsit:

> Extensions are less helpful than names. And I like what David Gelernter
> said about file names: roughly, file names are like animals; if you have
> two or three pets you give them a name; if you have a herd of sheep you
> don't bother.

People who have herds of dairy cows often do give them names, though.
I think the point here is that sheep are more or less interchangeable
(except to each other) and pets are not.  Dairy cows aren't interchangeable
one bit.

-- 
John Cowan
        jcowan@r...
                I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin

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