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Meaningful? To whom? And you’d run VERY quickly into scarcity
of “useful” strings, far quicker than randomly assigned numbers. Just look
at the nonsense that went on for well over a decade as new area codes were
introduced. All sorts of clamoring for “real” numbers for an area (212,
213, etc). And before that it was the local exchange names.
Now who even cares? Will our kids even grasp the notion of being gouged
‘toll charges’ for long distance?
Which still doesn’t make any of it relevant to the notion of ‘data driven’
systems. An argument that still hasn’t offered any realistic support for
itself.
From: John Cowan
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 5:31 PM
To: Bill Kearney
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Topics of keen interest to me ... how about
you? On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Bill Kearney <wkearney@gmail.com>
wrote:
The problem with phones is the assignment of arbitrary digit strings rather
than meaningful letter strings. That was not significantly
technology-bound.
My friends have done it for me.
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