• From: Ron Whitney <rwhitney@t...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:21:45 -0500

Tim Bray wrote:

>         ... but remember Theodore Sturgeon's Law of Popular Art
> Forms, which extends nicely to XML (or any other) standards; it says:
>
>  "95% of everything is crap".

The full statement may attempt to place itself non-generically in crap
space, but given Tim's own remarks about the level of discussion on
xml-dev, this feels like a probablistic version of the liar paradox.

-Ron

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  • Why 90 percent of XML standards will fail
    • From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>

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