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RE: Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You

• To: "'Paul Prescod'" <paul@p...>, "'Mike Champion'" <mc@x...>, "'XML Dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
• From: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@n...>
• Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:18:51 -0400
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Hi Paul,

Paul said:
I don't think that it is as simple as that. Some coherent architectures 
do emerge as a package from a single person or small team. Examples 
include the WIMP interface, the original Web, the Lisp programming 
language. Of course all of these have been incrementally extended since 
then.

Didier replies:
Thinking more about it, I would say that most of the coherent
architectures where the result of a single individual or a small group.
I guess that when we speak of design, the "small is beautiful"(1) motto
should be applied.

Cheers
Didier PH Martin

(1) Schumacher: http://www.schumachersociety.org/fritzbio.html

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