Re: [hybi] Resolving Issue 11 - Amateur programmer requirement [was: Extensibility mechanisms?]
Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Fri, 23 July 2010 09:19 UTC
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On 23/07/2010, at 10:38 AM, Pieter Hintjens wrote: > * Fourth, that making a protocol accessible to inexperienced, less > intelligent programmers will ensure its success. That suggests that > the successful protocols of the world were build by inexperienced > idiots, which would be insulting if it was not so obviously taken from > The Onion. "Schoolkid (5) invents Internet 2, sells to Google for > $50bn". +1. Protocol design is not simple (e.g., <http://research.sun.com/techrep/1994/smli_tr-94-29.pdf>*), and making it "easy" by exposing low-level constructs without any guidance seems to be the very definition of an attractive nuisance. * Kudos to Oracle for putting a proper redirect in place, even if they are getting rid of old Sun URIs :( -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
- [hybi] Resolving Issue 11 - Amateur programmer re… Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ)
- Re: [hybi] Resolving Issue 11 - Amateur programme… Mark Nottingham
- Re: [hybi] Resolving Issue 11 - Amateur programme… James Graham
- Re: [hybi] Resolving Issue 11 - Amateur programme… Robert Sayre
- Re: [hybi] Resolving Issue 11 - Amateur programme… Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ)
- Re: [hybi] Resolving Issue 11 - Amateur programme… Julian Reschke
- Re: [hybi] Resolving Issue 11 - Amateur programme… L.Wood
- Re: [hybi] Resolving Issue 11 - Amateur programme… Pieter Hintjens
- Re: [hybi] Resolving Issue 11 - Amateur programme… Willy Tarreau