> S. Isaac Dealey wrote:
>>
>> I imagine it's a lot easier to rattle off the numbers
>> when he's got
>> them either filed or bookmarked by category and date...

> No. The only thing I have locally is the SQL standard. For
> the rest I have Google.


>> but I have a hard time
>> understanding how anyone has the simple time to _read_
>> them in the
>> first place.

> I'm a very fast reader. And I find it much easier to
> remember something that I have read as something that I
> have heard. And I don't remember everything, just enough
> to Google it efficiently :)

To these I say "wow".

>> The language is so obfuscated (I'm convinced in many
>> cases / ways intentionally so) that I could make a
>> full-time job of
>> just reading them. I swear if they can use 5 concise
>> words to describe
>> something with no ambiguity, they'll use 50.

> Not at all. I am following the IETF RADEXT mailinglist
> dealing with extensions to the RADIUS protocol and the one
> thing that is foremost on everybodies mind is avoiding
> ambiguity. It may seem that many RFCs are intentionally
> obfuscated but they really are not. Every word is there
> for a reason.

To this I say "feh".

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