Michael McCallum wrote:
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>>I do that because I believe standards are essential - even if
>>'simpler' pet-solutions exist. Standards are the only way to
>>get people to work togheter - and DocBook, HTML, XSLT are
>>the standards.
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> Microsoft did not get where it was by using standards. It created things which were
>easy for people to use
> and they became the de facto standards.
Grmble grmble grmble.
Microsoft got where it is based on the shear might of its marketing
prowess. It made it easier than Mac to develop, so more developers
created solutions for it. I've seen Java tools beat out M$ tools
for the same job.
You can't claim microsoft has legitimately better technology if they
haven't worked with it. I've worked with it, and to say I dislike it
would be an understatement. MFC is the work of a raving mad mob of
developers rushing to get product out the door. It combines both
OOD and procedural mindsets within the same API.
Microsoft is *not* easy to develop. It's easier than Macintosh
(at least during the critical time frame when Mac could have done
better). Easy to use means that several apes pounding on keyboards
produced something that a user liked somewhere.
There are other dirty underhanded things that M$ did to get where it
is today. Don't try to compare us to M$. We're not M$.
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> Tools that solve problems tend to be much more pratical than standards.
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And standards solve problems tend to be doubly more practical.
Standards allow you to communicate more freely, because everyone
speaks the same language. There is no impedence mismatch because
I say To-mah-to and you say To-may-to. There is no misunderstanding
because I call a toilet a jon and you call it a lavatory. That is
what standards are about. No more wasted energy trying to explain
what we mean by a piece of code. Its a standard.
My 2c
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