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RE: Value of design documents (was: New TECHWR-L Poll Question)
Subject:RE: Value of design documents (was: New TECHWR-L Poll Question) From:"Carnall, Jane" <Jane -dot- Carnall -at- compaq -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:27:50 -0000
Geoff Hart wrote:
>Witness the problem with choice of units of measurement that sank the Mars
>Explorer probe. Maybe it's time for someone to take that formal language
for
>spec development and make it a little more usable by common mortals, as was
>done for SGML (resulting in HTML)?
Or maybe <g> it's time for the US to join the rest of the world (most of it)
in using metric measurements...? Though perhaps not with the enthusiastic
rigour of the UK in the European Community: today a greengrocer is being
prosecuted for selling bananas by the pound instead of the kilo. Even though
I think that a global standard system of measurements is inarguably a Good
Thing, no one could possibly argue that lives depend on bananas being sold
by the centimetre instead of the inch (er, I mean by grammes not ounces...)
Jane Carnall
El brillig de Twas, y los toves slithy hicieron el gyre y gimble en el wabe.
Todo mimsy eran los borogroves, y el outgrabe de los raths del mome.
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