- From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 21:40:46 -0400 (EDT)
- To: papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
> It disturbs me that instead of a "file description" mailing list, it is > already a "magic numbers" mailing list. We have discussed many different > ways of having self-identifying files, and I think that the SGML, Bento and > OLE mechanisms are equally valid, and perhaps already more widely used than > magic numbers. This is because we're trying to regularize and slightly improve on engineering practice in the Unix world, rather than building a huge, ambitious, theoretically wonderful object system that's so heavyweight and tangled up with corporate marketing that no one will actually use it. -- <a href="http://www.ccil.org/~esr/home.html">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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