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Rick Marshall wrote:
> which leads me to my real conclusion: simple things are good. they can
> be understood, implemented, and used in the lifetime of a human being.
> complex things are of no use because they can't.
Here's the famous codification of that idea by Richard Gabriel:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
He's writing about programming languages and operating systems, but the same
applies to specifications and standards.
And you can add RSS to your list of successful one-person specs: love him or
hate him, Dave Winer's the one who initially pulled RSS out of Netscape's
dumpster, slapped on a new paint job, and made it possible for it (or them,
since there's more than one RSS) to grow into XML's greatest success.
All the best,
David
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