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Simon St.Laurent scripsit:
> You can believe that if it's what it takes to keep working on it, but it
> looks like the W3C is building a stack to the sky. That stack isn't the
> chaotic Tower of Babel that Mark Pesce and others feared XML would
> create, but an ever-growing semantic stack that tries too hard to create
> order where tolerance for chaos might be a wiser strategy.
Order magicians may need to retreat to their own island in order to get
done what they want to get done; chaos magicians have the whole universe
to play in. There is no reason why they should oppose one another.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! `Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
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