• From: Al Snell <alaric@a...>
• To: Eric Bohlman <ebohlman@e...>
• Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 03:16:14 +0100 (BST)

On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Eric Bohlman wrote:

> >I have to express sympathy with this point of view.  A lot of the cruft
> >I've seen in recent times is due to lack of, if not academic, certainly
> >scholarly attention to prior art, experience and techniques.  Perhaps
> >that's just the culture of the Web, where the naive approach rules.
>
> In _Cyberselfish_, Paulina Boorsook speculated that one of the reasons the dotcoms didn't seem to
> want to hire anybody over 35 was that top management was afraid that older staffers would recognize
> the founders' concepts as things that had already been tried and failed.

I *so* agree with you people... Rare, on XML-DEV :-)

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