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Re: Pushing all the buttons

• To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>
• Subject: Re: Pushing all the buttons
• From: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>
• Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 23:06:51 +1000
• Cc: XML Dev <xml-dev@l...>
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On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 21:58, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> Tim Bray wrote:
> 
> > It's paranoid to think that some malefic Infoworld writer would 
> > assemble a story entirely out of elements designed to irritate me.  A 
> > fair-minded person would, I guess, shut up and see if this bears 
> > fruit, so I will.
> 
> Why irritating? We all know that XML is not optimized for efficiency 
> (terseness being of minimal etc.)
> That there should be more efficient formats than XML for particular jobs 
> is no news.
> 
> 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?"
> 
i'd reckon making it work is the first priority - efficiency can come
later.

ever experienced a project fail because everyone's worried about
efficiency, speed, user interface, etc but forgotten about making it
work?

rick

> Cheers
> Rick Jelliffe
> 
> 
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