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Maybe their time hasn't come yet. Gencoding and Truly's DTD sat around for a long while. I don't think any set of ideas can be forced before there is some threshold of widely perceived need, and even then, the progenitor may have to live with the fact of someone else's name on the cover. That's the pioneering risk. Somewhere in the Mediterranean, a long long time ago, someone or some group made a mechanical computer and no one realized it until a researcher x-rayed the rock it was embedded in. If it can't be replicated, it won't thrive. 80/20 engineering is the side effect. One of the original notions that led me to hypermedia was the possibility of recovering lost knowledge. And that dream came true. Who invented Ctrl-Alt-Del? David Bradley. Who made it famous? Bill Gates. len From: Joe English [mailto:jenglish@f...] HyLex used a similar syntax for regular expressions. I've always wondered why the idea never caught on elsewhere. (Then again, none of the ideas from HyTime ever really caught on...)
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