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RE: regular expressions

• To: 'Joe English' <jenglish@f...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: regular expressions
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:30:07 -0600

Maybe their time hasn't come yet.  Gencoding 
and Truly's DTD sat around for a long while. 
I don't think any set of ideas can be forced 
before there is some threshold of widely 
perceived need, and even then, the progenitor 
may have to live with the fact of someone 
else's name on the cover.

That's the pioneering risk.  Somewhere in the 
Mediterranean, a long long time ago, someone 
or some group made a mechanical computer and 
no one realized it until a researcher x-rayed 
the rock it was embedded in.  If it can't 
be replicated, it won't thrive.    

80/20 engineering is the side effect.
 
One of the original notions that led me to 
hypermedia was the possibility of recovering 
lost knowledge.  And that dream came true.

Who invented Ctrl-Alt-Del?  David Bradley.
Who made it famous?  Bill Gates.

len


From: Joe English [mailto:jenglish@f...]

HyLex used a similar syntax for regular expressions.
I've always wondered why the idea never caught on elsewhere.
(Then again, none of the ideas from HyTime ever really
caught on...)

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