From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) In-Reply-To: <4C2BAED2.5010104@authentrus.com> References: <4C1F05E7-B327-480A-91F3-055076377C99@fastmail.fm> <3633bacf2efc9da1b911893b4029531b@coraid.com> <4C2BAED2.5010104@authentrus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <7B526717-D990-4029-8221-A0AA5C78B224@fastmail.fm> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ethan Grammatikidis Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:06:18 +0100 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] xml Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3c10b308-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 30 Jun 2010, at 9:53 pm, Wes Kussmaul wrote: > > If you gathered up a bunch of old, proven data representation > methods, packaged it as XML 2.0, formed an XML 2.0 consortium and > put it out there energetically with bullet points and with a > straight face, people would buy it. > > No, listen, it's true, they would. The straight face part is > important though. Oh absolutely! You want to be successful in the computing world, pick an idea that's been forgotten and market it. It's been done over and over again, often to bad effect, reintroducing ideas which should have long been buried. I do wonder if this is what the Go authors are trying to do in a different area to xml; reintroduce good practice under new terminology. Perhaps there is a hard part to it: writing the idea up in such a way as to not offend the misled sensibilities of the average sheep. Those "misled sensibilities" are certainly a very serious problem for Go. > > http://fudili.com/ > > "If God had not meant them to be shorn, He would not have made them > sheep." > - Pancho Villa > > -- > Learn about The Authenticity Economy at > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1419344994607129684&hl=en# > >