[Jprogramming] The Accessible Dictionary

Ian Clark earthspotty at googlemail.com
Fri Feb 12 18:45:13 HKT 2010


On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Sherlock, Ric
<R.G.Sherlock at massey.ac.nz> wrote:
> Yes I agree that conforming to a standard doesn't really have that many benefits. I also agree with Raul that we're probably spending way too much time on this. :)

It is a bit like Parkinson's cycle-shed. Which was originally what
impelled me to railroad it thru.
His committee, you'll remember, argues for the whole meeting over
this, and then lets a billion dollar proposal go through on the nod.
But I detect a gotcha lurking there, or a big missed opportunity.

> Here is my latest (and probably last ;-) ) proposal:

...noted. Very close to CHARNAME_HOVEL (a down-market version of Adobe :)

Ian


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