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- From: kjm@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu (Kenneth J. Montgomery)
-
- > From: Doug Gwyn <uunet!smoke.brl.mil!gwyn>
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > 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.
-
- Question: do you believe that 1003.1 fits into this category? (I think
- I know better than to ask about X3J11... :-))
-
- > If anybody has practical suggestions how to
- > counter this runaway trend, please tell us!
-
- If I knew how to get people to choose good solutions over official and/or
- entrenched ones, I probably would be doing something better than UNIX...
-
- --
- The above viewpoints are mine. They are unrelated to those of
- anyone else, including my wife, our cats, and my employer.
-
- Kenneth J. Montgomery Senior Operating System Specialist
- kjm@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu University of Texas System
- Center for High-Performance Computing
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 47
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