From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: language standards
Date: 1997/03/10
Date: 1997-03-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.97Mar10164137@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: JSA.97Mar7151431@alexandria
In article <dewar.857783781@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
[a lot of sensible stuff which is irrelevant to the (very simple) issue]
> So, once again (reread my statements that you kindly quoted), my point is
> that if there are many possible technical approaches to a question, and
> there is no clear consensus on which is the best, then you are unlikely
> to be able to standardize in that area.
Yes, I know that is your point. That is _not_ what you put forth as
your starting thesis though!
> How that translates in your mind to me making a blanket statement that
> there should be no language standards is still completely beyond me.
It doesn't. You simply _said_ that very thing as your thesis.
> I can't even figure out the chain of reasoning, perhaps it is something
> like:
>
> Dewar says you can't standardize something where there are many approaches
> All features in programming languages have many approaches
> Therefore ...
You are putting _way_ too much into this. You simply goofed in your
starting statement of your thesis. It may have even been a typo! You
simply _said_ that it was _not_ silly to say that all efforts at
standardization were futile.
/Jon
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1997-03-06 0:00 language standards Robert Dewar
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
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