[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Re: limits of the generic


norman generic fix
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

/ "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...> was heard to say:
| Norm Walsh writes:
|> | It's time to get over the notion that a committee of experts can
|> | solve semantic problems for a wide range of problems.  It was very
|> | nice of the W3C to provide a home for the simplification of SGML
|> | and give us a useful syntax, but the results since then have been
|> | hideous - and in large part because the world takes the W3C's
|> | pretensions seriously.
|> 
|> <shrug/>

Okay, there's no question that my shrug could be misinterpreted.

You expressed a strongly worded statement of personal opinion. Parts
of it were worded in a way that struck me as inflamatory ("it wes very
nice of the W3C..." and "pretensions") and part of it was a universal
statement of apparent fact about how you perceive the world to react
to the efforts of the W3C's woking groups.

My shrug was intended only to communicate that I had no desire to
argue with you on those points. You're entitled to your opinion and I
don't think you're opinion is unjustified. I have no desire to attempt
to persuade you to change it and I doubt that I have the ability to do
so anyway, so I just let it go. Hence, "shrug".

Perhaps my nerves are a little raw because I feel more than usually
responsible for the level of emotion in this discussion because I
started it off with a poorly worded message. In any event, I've found
your tone quite antagonizing on more than one occasion in this thread.

For example, I find this statement

| I guess you're too deeply involved to see the W3C's continuous pile-on
| as a problem.  I count your shrug as yet another sign that some people
| don't care enough to fix it.

quite insulting.

| Oh well.

Indeed.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

- -- 
Norman.Walsh@S...    | In every work of genius we recognize our own
XML Standards Architect | rejected thoughts; they come back to us with
Sun Microsystems, Inc.  | a certain alienated majesty.--Emerson
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.7 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/>

iD8DBQE9mJlhOyltUcwYWjsRAvyVAJ46Makb/mYC55CBBuPrd7g+g9zYSQCfd7FD
rulaSG+Lg9TFDCLVC+A7bgs=
=0SqC
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!

Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced!

Buy Stylus Studio Now

Download The World's Best XML IDE!

Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today!

Don't miss another message! Subscribe to this list today.
Email
First Name
Last Name
Company
Subscribe in XML format
RSS 2.0
Atom 0.3
 

Stylus Studio has published XML-DEV in RSS and ATOM formats, enabling users to easily subcribe to the list from their preferred news reader application.


Stylus Studio Sponsored Links are added links designed to provide related and additional information to the visitors of this website. they were not included by the author in the initial post. To view the content without the Sponsor Links please click here.

Site Map | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Trademarks
Free Stylus Studio XML Training:
W3C Member
Stylus Studio® and DataDirect XQuery ™are products from DataDirect Technologies, is a registered trademark of Progress Software Corporation, in the U.S. and other countries. © 2004-2013 All Rights Reserved.