RE: [xml-dev] Competing Specifications - A Good or Bad Thing?

["Paul Sumner Downey" <Paul.Downey@whatfettle.com>]

a couple of years ago i sat down to read a 130+ page 

"design overview" which had the gall to quote "Occam's Razor"

as its design ethos.

 

It's a case of WS-Paving-The-Road-to-hell ...

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@ingr.com]
Sent: 06 April 2004 20:32
To: 'Jim Rankin'; rjm@zenucom.com
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org DEV
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Competing Specifications - A Good or Bad Thing?

Problem is, one simple thing is simple.  Two might not be.

More than that likely aren't.

 

No one sets out to deliberately design obscure complex

products unless they are David Lynch.

 

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Rankin [mailto:jimbokun_lists@mac.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 2:32 PM
To: rjm@zenucom.com
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org DEV
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Competing Specifications - A Good or Bad Thing?

On Apr 5, 2004, at 5:53 PM, Rick Marshall wrote:

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.

I just added this to my signatures list.

-jimbo

Excelsior! XML Marshaller for Cocoa

http://www.homepage.mac.com/jimbokun/Excelsior.html