What Clean Specs Achieve

Simon St.Laurent simonstl at simonstl.com
Sat Feb 6 17:55:49 GMT 1999


At 05:53 PM 2/6/99 +0000, Mark Birbeck wrote:
>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)?

But is anyone here trying to _implement_ Java?  Lots of folks here are
indeed trying to _implement_ XML 1.0 (parsers and SAX), XLink and XPointer,
Namespaces, XSL, etc.  It's not like we're only trying to _use_ them, as is
the case with Java (or SQL, another example that's been bounced around.)  


Simon St.Laurent
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