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- From: thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet)
- Subject: Re: Common Lisp is a dpANS in Public Review
- Message-ID: <#7-nz!r.thinman@netcom.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 22:53:12 GMT
- Organization: International Foundation for Internal Freedom
- References: <CHYDE.92Aug20142758@pecos.ads.com> <CHYDE.92Aug20173445@pecos.ads.com> <1992Aug21.163403.7918@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>
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- johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
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- >But so far
- >nobody has come up with a plausible way to make up for the lost revenue
- >that ANSI needs to stay in business. An advantage of the current system
- >is that standards are paid for by people who actually use them.
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- A disadvantage of the current system is that 95% of the standards
- arrived at are technically garbage. Down with ANSI!
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- X, FDDI, PEX, OSI, ... The last really good one was Ethernet,
- and they had that forced down their throats.
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- Lance Norskog
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- Data is not information is not knowledge is not wisdom.
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