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- From: Doug Gwyn <uunet!smoke.brl.mil!gwyn>
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- In article <600@longway.TIC.COM> David Dick writes:
- >We're probably about to codify poor implementations of an enormous number
- >of things, because of the amount of activity in the standards area.
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- This is also my perception. The question is, what can be done about it?
- The so-called "standards" bandwagon is in a downhill runaway state.
- While Ada was probably the first significant example of abuse of software
- standards, the current 1003.n activities are the ones that concern me the
- most, because they will eventually get in the way of adopting superior
- solutions in those technical areas, due to the political pressure to use
- official standards whenever they exist, regardless of how poorly
- engineered they may be. If anybody has practical suggestions how to
- counter this runaway trend, please tell us!
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- Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 43
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