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Re: Competing Specifications - A Good or Bad Thing?

• To: rjm@z...
• Subject: Re: Competing Specifications - A Good or Bad Thing?
• From: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@b...>
• Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 08:51:38 -0400
• Cc: "Bullard Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>, "'Jim Rankin'" <jimbokun_lists@m...>, "xml-dev@l... DEV" <xml-dev@l...>
• Organization: Booz Allen Hamilton
• References: <15725CF6AFE2F34DB8A5B4770B7334EE03F9F5C2@h...> <1081289675.2467.8.camel@z...>

And sometimes 2 complex things in combination result in something
simple.

(It sounded good, though I wish I had a good concrete example...)

Kind Regards,
Joe Chiusano
Booz | Allen | Hamilton
Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World

Rick Marshall wrote:
> 
> actually len i think the trick is to keep building simple things that
> can interact. the total system can be amazingly complex, but each
> component simple, verifiable, and understood.
> 
> unix was built on that premise, djikstra's predicate calculus almost
> dictates it, it is the heart of my database/application work and
> philosophy of how to build very large systems, but most importantly it
> is essential to the existence and success of the web - and by extension
> this group.
> 
> so, in this matter i disagree. lots of simple things are still simple
> things, even if their interaction is so complex it can never be fully
> understood.
> 
> rick
> 
> On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 05:32, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> > Problem is, one simple thing is simple.  Two might not be.
> > More than that likely aren't.
> >
> > No one sets out to deliberately design obscure complex
> > products unless they are David Lynch.
> >
> > len
> >         -----Original Message-----
> >         From: Jim Rankin [mailto:jimbokun_lists@m...]
> >         Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 2:32 PM
> >         To: rjm@z...
> >         Cc: xml-dev@l... DEV
> >         Subject: Re:  Competing Specifications - A Good or
> >         Bad Thing?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >         On Apr 5, 2004, at 5:53 PM, Rick Marshall wrote:
> >
> >
> >         simple things are good. they can
> >
> >         be understood, implemented, and used in the lifetime of a
> >         human being.
> >
> >         complex things are of no use because they can't.
> >
> >
> >         I just added this to my signatures list.
> >
> >
> >         -jimbo
> >
> >
> >         Excelsior! XML Marshaller for Cocoa
> >
> >         http://www.homepage.mac.com/jimbokun/Excelsior.html
> >
> 
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Kind Regards,
Joseph Chiusano
Associate
Booz | Allen | Hamilton

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