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Re: Polemicism

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• Subject: Re: Polemicism
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 16:36:03 +1000
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From: <Matthew.Bennett@f...>

> Would you not agree that this list (and the human experience of artistic
> endeavour generally) is testament to the notion that fine works are almost
> invariably the work of individuals, and conversely, the work of teams is
> usually mediocre, at best. Most of the truly insightful software I've
> encountered was authored by one or two; most of the lousy software was
> written by corporate teams. Isn't the plethora of inane 'standards' around
> XML evidence that it's doomed to rest in the latter category?

But technologies don't spring fully-formed from the minds of their creators
and stay inviolate: Goldfarb (and a couple of others) made GML, 
then it was committeed up to SGML, then it was committeed down again to XML,
now it is being committeed up again by the typists and queres.

A seasonal view lets us be more sanguine: we encourage growth and
efflorescence in the spring and then harvest and prune-back in autumn. 

Cheers
Rick "Chancy Gardener" Jelliffe

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