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Anymore I'm convinced that, in general, *nothing* is actually simple (or intuitive). It's really a question of how much knowledge is just 'understood' within a group of people. But in large groups, and especially in our interconnected world which brings together people with significantly different prior knowledge and assumptions, nothing is simple--just a simplification. Could we shoot for clarity? Knowledge is modular, too. X-hausted X-Ed Hodder -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Lowery [mailto:jlowery@s...] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 10:36 PM To: 'Rick Jelliffe' Cc: Xml-Dev (E-mail) Subject: RE: Open Standards Organization > How about this for a rule? > > * No standard should be longer than 15 printed pages (at 12 > pts Times), > excluding front and backmatter, tuorial material, DTDs or > other XML code, and formal characterizations. I tried suggesting that a measure of simplicity on the TAG list and was informed I was ignorant. Seems that even some arguably simple standards require more words. I guess that's true. I don't that Tim Bray ever got a useful response to his request for a measure of simplicity. I don't think there is one, but we all know simple when we see it.
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