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Re: Pushing all the buttons

• To: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>,"XML Dev" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Pushing all the buttons
• From: "Bob Foster" <bob@o...>
• Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 19:41:40 -0500
• References: <3F6C70A9.5040904@t...> <3F6D925F.7020906@a...>

From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
> The "aha" line, however, is
>
>   "We believe that developers are to a large degree lazy. They find a
> concept that they're comfortable
>   with, they take that concept, and push it to the limit," said
> Pelegri-Llopart."
>
> Does anyone else read that as "Developers are stupid; how come everyone
> doesn't have efficiency as their
> first priority?"

An interesting comment from one of the design leads of JSP, which has
consistently evolved by favoring notational convenience over efficiency. ;-}

Bob Foster

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  • Re: Pushing all the buttons
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