What Clean Specs Achieve, WAS: Colonialism, SAX, Java, and Na mespaces

[Mark Birbeck]

Bill la Forge wrote:
> One of the big advantages of Java is that a small shop can
> tackle significant projects. With clean specs, the same will
> be true for XML.
> 

Hands up, who has read the Java spec (and that's not the same as reading
the nice clear instructions given to you by the people who wrote the
compiler)?

Mark Birbeck
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