• To: "James Lindley Walford" <jlw@i...>, "'Vladimir Gapeyev'" <vgapeyev@s...>, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Subject: Re: SV: Names As Types
• From: "Nathan Young" <natyoung@c...>
• Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:04:52 -0700
• Cc: "XML Developers List" <xml-dev@l...>
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• Organization: Cisco Systems
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Hi.

> Or possibly, to quote Wittgenstein, "meaning is use". The software  
> "coming
> out of this mess" indicates the meaning of the language by actually using
> it...

"the implementation is the spec"... For ages XML-RPC went along with that  
as the EXPLICIT state of affairs.  "Working implementation" literally  
meant "works with the userland implementation"

--->N

>
> I'm sorry I can't provide any Wittgenstein quotes regarding turtles.
>
> James Walford



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