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Re: Memorable quotes from Balisage 2013

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
• To: "xml-dev@lists.xml.org" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 12:56:48 -0400

On 8/11/13 12:48 PM, David Lee wrote:
> Look to other fields of science or engineering. You get in the
> Nightly  news if you have a new Dark Matter paper,  but if you're
> working on optimizing particulate flow of grains in a conveyer you
> won't be noticed except maybe in Corn Monthly. But who is going to
> feed the world ?

The part that worries me is that we have papers on optimizing 
particulate flows of grains - a very nice metaphor, in fact - but not 
nearly so many people eager to implement those improvements.

People are instead eager to implement, er, dark matter.

On the bright side, I think the paper you presented on XML and JSON 
comparisons 
<http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol10/html/Lee01/BalisageVol10-Lee01.html> 
may have some impact on those priorities.

Thanks,
-- 
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/

• References:
  • Memorable quotes from Balisage 2013
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: Memorable quotes from Balisage 2013
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
  • RE: Memorable quotes from Balisage 2013
    • From: David Lee <dlee@calldei.com>