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Re: What Is XML, or MicroXML?
- From: Stephen Cameron <steve.cameron.62@gmail.com>
- To: Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net>
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 10:00:55 +1100
This might amuse, found completely by accident just now. Sowa's Law of Standards
In 1991, Sowa first stated his Law of Standards:
- "Whenever a major organization develops a new system as an official standard for X, the primary result is the widespread adoption of some simpler system as a de facto standard for X."[8]
Like Gall's law, The Law of Standards is essentially an argument in favour of underspecification. Examples include:
- The introduction of PL/I resulting in COBOL and FORTRAN becoming the de facto standards for scientific and business programming
- The introduction of Algol-68 resulting in Pascal becoming the de facto standard for academic programming
- The introduction of the Ada language resulting in C becoming the de facto standard for DoD programming
- The introduction of OS/2 resulting in Windows becoming the de facto standard for desktop OS
- The introduction of X.400 resulting in SMTP becoming the de facto standard for electronic mail
- The introduction of X.500 resulting in LDAP becoming the de facto standard for directory services
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Sowa
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