Arthur A. Gleckler scripsit: > "...The party of arrested innovation?" Please, could we stop with the > ad hominem attacks? It should be possible to have a fun, technical > discussion without being rude.
Grant Rettke scripsit: > John when you put it that way, it makes me feel like you are > attempting to set up one side of the community as forward thinking, > enlightened individuals who innovate and the other as backwards > thinking, mentally arrested people who dislike innovation. First of all, innovation isn't always good. XML Schema was certainly an innovation, but it was a horrible mess (in my view and that of many other XML folks). The same can be said of SQL. Second, Scheme began as an innovation: see how much Lisp we can do with just a few things? That's what the much-loved preface is all about. The Party Without A Name wants to keep that innovation from being whittled away by the introduction of things that are irrelevant to it. The Other Party wants to build on the innovation with more innovations. These are both legitimate desires in my view. > Was that your intent? Good heavens, no. You got me all wrong. I shoulda known better. -- John Cowan http://ccil.org/~cowan [email protected] SAXParserFactory [is] a hideous, evil monstrosity of a class that should be hung, shot, beheaded, drawn and quartered, burned at the stake, buried in unconsecrated ground, dug up, cremated, and the ashes tossed in the Tiber while the complete cast of Wicked sings "Ding dong, the witch is dead." --Elliotte Rusty Harold on xml-dev _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
