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Re: Evangelizing RNG

• To: Don Park <donpark@d...>
• Subject: Re: Evangelizing RNG
• From: Norman Gray <norman@a...>
• Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:25:28 +0100 (BST)
• Cc: Xml-Dev <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <000001c20e61$5935a660$6401a8c0@rainbow>

Greetings,

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Don Park wrote:

> While I agree that we need to encourage (read push) XML tool vendors to
> add RNG support, we need to make it attractive (read pull) for those
> tool vendors to add RNG support.
>
> To make this happen, we need to evangelize RNG to the public in general.

Evangelising random number generators!?  I know folk misuse them, but...

...oh, I see what you mean!  Perhaps `RNG' isn't the best abbreviation.

This isn't just a complaint from a fogey who still thinks that `asp'
expands to Amsterdam SGML Parser: anyone who isn't a hard-core xml-dev
reader will almost certainly automatically expand RNG to its older
definition, if they expand it at all; and explaining why they
shouldn't would probably be distracting rather than anything else.

All the best,

Norman


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