RE: An open plea to the W3C (was Re: XInclude vs SAX vs validatio n)

["Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>]

On 23 Aug 2001 13:13:32 -0400, Champion, Mike wrote:
> The default solution is to keep piling on the complexity until W3C process
> collapses under its weight (arguably, it already has!), and then let someone
> else come along and carve "Java" our of our "C++".  I hope that we can be
> more pro-active and do what needs to be done before 20:20 hindsight makes it
> obvious what SHOULD have been done. 

I figure the "default solution" will happen eventually - I just worry
about the interval between the pile-up and the carving.

That, and lots of people still use C++ and many of them bear the scars.