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SQL required years and iterations. UNIX took thousands upon thousands of manhours of work and even then, spawned multiple incompatible versions and never became a usuable technology outside its own priesthood. C's inventor required extensible typing and inheritance of method and code, so C++, now C# because Java hasn't quite lived up to the promise of write once run anywhere. This isn't matter of not trying to solve the entire problem but of understanding the entire problem and working toward a complete solution. That's the real lesson of history; iteration and rework. XML is one step beyond comma-delimited character strings. That's 20. Whoopee. The 80 is Beyond XML. Back to the wars. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@t...] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 6:04 PM To: xml-dev@l... Subject: RE: is that a fork in the road? At 04:01 PM 02/03/01 -0600, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: >Success? Everyone can use <... ...="..." />. >Whoopee! Try to connect the dots and see >what happens. That minimal victory bites. Whoopee indeed, based on what seems to be happening out there. The lesson here is the same as the one taught by the Web itself, by the C and Java languages, by SQL, by the Unix system call interface, in fact from virtually every successful world-changing technology deployment: don't try to solve the whole problem. Or to put it in Len's terms, minimal victories are just fine, because they're the ones you can actually get. It dawns on me that I've now probably said this enough times... -Tim "80-20" Bray
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