• To: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Subject: Re: Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
• From: Sam Hunting <shunting@e...>
• Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:42:03 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: XML Dev <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <HE1XQODQIC4ZNKMJ65TUGCVQHFHG.3d8759e2@MChamp>

>  In 20/20 hindsight, it seems easy to see HTTP as an incremental
> modification of FTP, URLs as DNS+filesystem, and HTML as a trivial
> SGML DTD.  I'm sure it didn't seem so cut and dried at CERN!

Simplicity is hard. 
 
Sam Hunting
eTopicality, Inc.

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