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Re: XML Technologies: Progress via Simplification or Co mplexi

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• Subject: Re: XML Technologies: Progress via Simplification or Co mplexification?
• From: Frank Richards <frank@t...>
• Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:04:34 -0400
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On Thursday 24 June 2004 10:56, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>  In the recent article cited from Chaitin,
> he noted how in a hundred years, theories would
> emerge that would take only a few pages to
> describe because the terminology would evolve
> to the point that fewer terms are necessary
> and so what was once complicated to explain
> would be simple.  Is this an advance in
> terminology or in understanding?

'Yes.' With understanding comes the ability to coin the elegant terminology,
to describe the elegant design which also requires the understanding to 
create.

Frank

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