From: gregm@netidea.com (Greg Martin)
Subject: Re: The revolution will not be standardized
Date: 1999/12/14
Date: 1999-12-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3856d861.30417176@news.netidea.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 385685B2.7E341C32@quadruscorp.com
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 10:00:18 -0800, "Marin D. Condic"
<mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com> wrote:
>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? ;-)
>
I certainly hope it doesn't Marin because I believe you are quite
right. A standard is to be measured against and has to be open and
used to be of meaning.. The U.S. still clings (to some degree) to the
British Standard of weights and measure while most of the rest of the
world has gone metric. End result: more flotsam (or is that jetsam) on
Mars.
Regards,
Greg Martin.
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 ` 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
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Greg Martin [this message]
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 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-12-23 0:00 ` gnat 3.12 Michael Ben-Gershon
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` The revolution will not be standardized Richard D Riehle
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Greg Martin
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-14 0:00 ` reason67
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
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