From: "Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>
Subject: Re: The revolution will not be standardized
Date: 1999/12/14
Date: 1999-12-14T17:59:13+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <385685B2.7E341C32@quadruscorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 835ukh$uiv$1@nntp2.atl.mindspring.net
Richard D Riehle wrote:
> Of course it is. It is standardized just the way
> MS Visual Basic is standardized.
>
Standards are such a wonderful thing that everybody wants to have one of
their own, eh? :-)
I'd think that for the term to be useful, it needs to imply some sort of
agreement between a collection of autonomous and even adversarial people
to adhere to some reasonably well defined set of rules.
How's that for kicking off another language war? ;-)
MDC
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1999-12-09 0:00 The revolution will not be standardized Ted Dennison
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-13 0:00 ` reason67
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-14 0:00 ` reason67
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic [this message]
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Greg Martin
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-16 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-21 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-21 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-12-23 0:00 ` gnat 3.12 Michael Ben-Gershon
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-15 0:00 ` The revolution will not be standardized Greg Martin
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
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