[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: "Phase Relationships in the Standardization Process"
Well here is another Gosling quote: Design principles. + Keep it Simple + Redundancy is bad + "it's a nice idea" is too weak a criteria: only put in what's essential + Complex = hard to build, test. debug, tune, explain + Use What Works + its easier to add something later when you figure out the answer + Than it is to plster over a mistake that creates a legacy + Unnecessary risk increases chance of failure Taken from, http://java.sun.com/people/jag/Presentations/TheStoryOfJava/img20.htm Niels Peter > This is probably ancient news to some of you, but James Gosling, in 1990 > http://java.sun.com/people/jag/StandardsPhases/index.html writes: > > "For a standard to be usefully formed, the technology needs to be > understood: > technological interest needs to be waning. But if political interest in > a standard > becomes too large, the various parties have too much at stake in their > own vested > interest to be flexible enough to accommodate the unified view that a > standard > requires....
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