Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Tupshin Harper <address@hidden>

    > OK....they [W3C] brought the booze to the party, but the drinking was 
    > voluntary. One party can't be so simply blamed for mass hysteria. 

In many places, a bartender or party host can in fact be held liable
for the drunk-driving of their patrons/guests.

    > Originally, nobody was envisioning HTML/HTTP "applications". It was 
    > strictly an information delivery mechanism. Other (non-w3c) people 
    > started building other things on top of it, and w3c has been trying to 
    > keep with what others were doing with their technology ever since. 
    > (Yes...oversimplification, but so is your view) ;-)

They could have said "no" and then tried to explain why at various
points.

Frankly, I'd like to see that become a part of engineering
curriculums: you confront credential candidates with situations where
they (a) have to say "no" and (b) everyone, even their most trusted
advisors, are saying (pressuring for, even) "yes".  And then if they
don't say "no", you quietly find some random excuse to flunk them out.

Meanwhile, I'm still amused at being the only implementor I've found
of a correct realization of XML Schema regexps --- and simultaneously
the implementor of a matcher never once used in an actual Schema
verifier.   Could this stuff _be_ more snake-oil?

-t