On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:48:04PM -0500, Austin Hastings wrote: > > From: Uri Guttman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>>>> "AH" == Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > AH> PS: While I'm somewhat sympathetic to the fact that eu guys are > > AH> trying to spin up 200 years worth of amendments and supreme court > > AH> decisions at the same time, it's still a ratf*ck. Eu need to get > > AH> eurselves a Larry. I wonder if there's a precedent for that? > > > > but he if worked on that at the rate he is churning out apocalypses, it > > would be another 200 years. this is not a knock on larry but a comment > > on how large and complex that eu constitution probably is. > > Au contraire. His job would not be to write, per se, but to eliminate. > Consider all the RFC's and then consider the synthesis he did to produce, > e.g., Grammars. Or the new block constructs (loop, etc.). Occam is dead. > Larry's still got a very sharp razor.
The RFC's were generated in just a few months and the elimination and synthesis has taken quite a bit longer.
