Re: Relationship Taxonomy Questions

At 09:44 PM 1/22/97 -0500, Paul Prescod wrote:
>As far as whether we should specify some relationships up front, I have two
>contributions:
>
>#1. Maybe HyTime would be more widely used if it were less Meta and more 
>language. That sounds like a slam against HyTime but it isn't. Scheme might
>be more widely used if it were less functional and more like Java, but then
>it wouldn't be useful for the important uses it is used for (whew!), like
>DSSSL. Maybe XML is where we take HyTime to the masses by being a little
>less meta.

Exactly.  

Cheers,

E.
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