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

[Mark Birbeck]

Tim Bray wrote:
> Mark Birbeck wrote:
> >If I want to store my data in reverse-Polish Hamming-coded
> >object structures, using the eyelids of lizards to represent base-4
> >numbers (two lizards per byte), then that's up to me. 
> 
> You'd better not do that; it's covered by US Patent 4,234,611. -Tim
> 

Ha! I was sitting here waiting to see who was going to take the trouble
to pull me up on miscounting the number of lizards that make up a byte,
and I thought this was going to be it. Well done everyone for resisting
the temptation!

Regards,

Mark

xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa at ic.ac.uk)