On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the real world, not the software one, vast change occurs behind > standardized interfaces. When I plug in a toaster, it works, > regardless of whether the power comes from California or British > Columbia, coal plant or solar cell. My cell phone adapter kit disagrees. Something as numbingly simple as a wall voltage interface is still wildly different around the world. > Interoperability and > consistency permits modern civilization, without which no programmer > would have a physically stable environment to program in, much less > a vast network of interoperable standard hardware that can move their > code-typing to the far side of the planet in a fraction of a second. > I agree that standards are awesome, which is why there are so many to choose from. Flexibility, within a range of parameters, is what I would argue "Makes things work". > P.P.S. ... http ... foo.com ... thank you Tim Berners-Lee and > Brad Templeton for some surprisingly durable standards. Your > shit still works after decades, the addons maybe sorta. > > <blink> It's funny how things get polluted. </blink> -Bop _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
