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From: Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Brdline
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:45:11 -0800
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Standards are for when there are too many cooks in the kitchen.  By  
their very nature they have to compromise.
Give me the work of a standards committee before the the work of a  
single idiot; but most of all give me the work of a brilliant expert  
before that of the committee.  And for God's sake, please don't turn  
my expert into an idiot by throwing him onto a committee!

Paul

On 17-Jan-06, at 10:11 PM, Bruce Ellis wrote:

> standards are weird.  i wish someone would standardize standards.
> oh no that would involve a committee of uninformed experts.
>
> i have never had a problem with kenc, both for user and kernel stuff.
> but i don't use putchar() or some other recalcitrant macro.
>
> the proof is in the pudding.
>
> brucee
>
> On 1/18/06, Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 17-Jan-06, at 9:38 PM, Simon Williams wrote:
>>
>>> The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose
>>> from
>>> Cheers
>>>        Simon ( who cant remember who said this first )
>>
>> Andy Tannenbaum, wasn't it?
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>