RE: Competing Specifications - A Good or Bad Thing?

To: 'Paul Sumner Downey' <Paul.Downey@w...>, 'Jim Rankin' <jimbokun_lists@m...>, "'rjm@z...'" <rjm@z...>
Subject: RE: Competing Specifications - A Good or Bad Thing?
From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 08:09:34 -0500
Cc: "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>

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I don't think so. If this is a composable set of specifications,

it is a matter of the programmer not paving their own roads to

hell by putting together components that don't work. So the

WSIO profiles bear watching.

How coarse a loosely coupled chunk work? In other words,

what combinations are failure prone? Those will be questions

to ask. We can make complex things work if they are composed

of simpler things that work. Otherwise ALL of our cars would be

"unsafe at any speed".

len

From: Paul Sumner Downey [mailto:Paul.Downey@w...]

a couple of years ago i sat down to read a 130+ page

"design overview" which had the gall to quote "Occam's Razor"

as its design ethos.

It's a case of WS-Paving-The-Road-to-hell ...

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