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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Overused metaphors - Software ICs, etc.
Message-ID: <26CBEB20.5009@tct.uucp>
Date: 17 Aug 90 13:03:27 GMT
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According to lgm@cbnewsc.att.com (lawrence.g.mayka):
>1) Standards are, or ought to be, merely least common denominators.
>2) Standards are not meant to accommodate revolutionary change.

For both of these reasons, I believe that "standard components" as
described by Dr. Cox will never happen.  I'd be happy to be wrong, of
course.  But I don't think that the industry can make necessary
progress if it is based on least common denominators and if it cannot
accommodate revolutinary change.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
 "Most of my code is written by myself.  That is why so little gets done."
                 -- Herman "HLLs will never fly" Rubin