- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@wired.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 13:08:54 -0800 (PST)
- To: Philippe-Andre Prindeville <philipp@res.enst.fr>
- Cc: Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www0.cern.ch>
On Mon, 5 Dec 1994, Philippe-Andre Prindeville wrote: > A lot of people don't want certain features -- not because they believe > thee features aren't useful or appropriate -- but because they are > worried about the complexity of implementing them. > > Now while I'm all for pragmatism in programming, I think that > lobotomizing a specification just because the implementation *might* > be "challenging" is not just lazy, but extremely unhealthy. While I agree that difficulty of implementation should not be held up as the sole reason for not including a feature, we should also make sure that we don't make the base level feature set of core WWW technology so complex that a reasonable server or client could only be written by large software companies or institutions, as that would stifle creativity and experimentation. Though I suppose that's the whole idea behind a public reference library implementation like libwww... Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Your slick hype/tripe/wipedisk/zipped/zippy/whine/online/sign.on.the.ish/oil pill/roadkill/grease.slick/neat.trick is great for what it is. -- Wired Fan #3 brian@hotwired.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.hotwired.com/Staff/brian/
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