Bill de hÓra wrote:

>  To respond to the first paragraph above. You don't need paternal
>  specifications to protect your applications from change. You need
>  better developers.

OTH, a successful technology is a technology which *real* developers can 
deal with :) ... and I think that a specification which pretends to be 
eXtensible could have done a better job in the domain!

Eric
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