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Complexity and Post Modernism

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• Subject: Complexity and Post Modernism
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:34:00 -0600

http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/decon.html

I don't want to start a thread on this topic so 
if anyone has comments, send them offline.  I pass 
this URL along for those who feel that certain XML 
specifications are unreadable or that complexity 
is a function of too many features, too many 
options, etc. and that this can be fixed by 
doing less or explaining more, or more cleverly. 

Complexity is a perception.  Sometimes the 
message is meaningless;  sometimes, the 
interpretation is.  The success of a concept or 
a technology is not who uses it or what it 
costs but that it survives into the 
next generation of application.  Like humans, 
reproduction is the ultimate speech act of 
things technical.

len

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