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At 04:34 AM 2/6/99 -0600, Paul Prescod wrote: >I also do not buy the thesis that it elitist to recommend that "average >developers" not waste their time learning an abstraction until >infrastructure and context becomes available in order to use it. There are >many technologies that I expect will be relevant to average developers at >some point in the future but are not now. Well, I guess we'll see what the average developers do, and how they respond to such attitudes and their results in the specs. Speaking for myself as an 'average developer', I find this view infuriating, and a poor excuse to avoid the extra effort needed to make specs more immediately usable and comprehensible. On the other hand, maybe some developers don't care and it may in the long run have no significant impact. We've been over this too many times, so I'll end here with a plea to spec developers and their explainers. Make your specifications as comprehensible as you can to as wide an audience as you can, so that all of us can spend more time writing implentations and less time debating what the specs mean. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer / Building XML Applications (March) Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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