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Re: Polemicism

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• Subject: Re: Polemicism
• From: "Bill Kearney" <wkearney@i...>
• Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 14:10:27 -0400
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• Reply-to: "Bill Kearney" <wkearney@i...>

Mein Kampf was written by one man.  That certainly set a standard which many
followed.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Black, Neville" <Neville_Black@c...>
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Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 2:04 PM
Subject: RE:  Polemicism


> The "King James " translation of the Bible
> was a committee work....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Fitzgerald [mailto:mike@w...]
>
> Matthew.Bennett@f... wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Painting, sculpture, and novel, yes; architecture, no.
>
> > 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?
>
> True. I've seen that, too. Software or data standards become true standards
> based on, I think, two key factors: wide acceptance by the masses who care
> and implementability by engineers. Big money can trump these factors,
> however.
>
> Mike

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