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- From: uunet!bfmny0!tneff (Tom Neff)
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- In article <532@longway.TIC.COM> Donn Terry <donn@hpfcrn.hp.com> writes:
- >>It is not EXISTING standards that exert a chilling effect on programming
- >>creativity, but FUTURE ones.
- >
- >I can see the point. However, what would you suggest as an alterative?
- >Every standard was once or will sometime be a future standard. Without
- >standards we get chaos (as eveyone who has bealt with all the variants of
- >UN*X knows).
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- 1. Don't standardize things the marketplace hasn't tested.
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- 2. Don't wait a decade after the market DOES test it.
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- 3. Don't take three years to issue the standard once you start.
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- When these precepts are ignored, standards become an oppressive force,
- a drain on productivity, a laughingstock, or all three.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 18, Number 48
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