• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 18:48:06 -0400

At 4:11 PM -0500 7/9/01, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>Errmm... You forget long term archival applications. 
>

I'm not quite sure I know what you're trying to say here; but for long term archival, consider the Rosetta stone. It was written in Hieroglyphic, 
Demotic, and Greek; and it's that last language that let it be translated. Now imagine it were written in one language. That would have been a lot less useful. 
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