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Re: Co-operating with Architectural Forms

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• Subject: Re: Co-operating with Architectural Forms
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:21:51 -0500
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• Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
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On Thursday 31 January 2002 09:34 am, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> True, but anyone who thinks there is a straight line
> for the emergence of hypermedia's place in technology
> doesn't read enough or wasn't around for some of these
> bits.

Right. There's lessons to be learned from the technology, and from how 
*not* to do things (hardest lessons of all). 

> Still, gencoding wins every time if one chooses
> simpler or worse is better over evolvable and
> that is a lesson for the namespace supporters.

Quite. Sooner or later the big dreams come crashing back to reality. 
Hardcoding anything is usually a pretty big mistake.

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