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Welcome to the word of organic evolution. Yes, it's messy and inefficient - because nobody knows beforehand how things would turn out. In hindsight, it's not ra
by zeteo 16y ago
Welcome to the word of organic evolution. Yes, it's messy and inefficient - because nobody knows beforehand how things would turn out. In hindsight, it's not rational to entrust junior programmers with single-handed development of initial versions of HTML and Javascript - but it was the only way these things could come out. Big, "rational", committee-driven projects (e.g. The Semantic Web) failed, and it's interesting to speculate why.
- nanairo 16y agoI wouldn't say that the Semantic Web has failed... it's moving slowly, but it's been adopted more and more. These sort of standards seem to have a critical mass kind of life... maybe compounded by the Internet hype machine. Microframeworks for example have been very effective. I also hope we'll soon have something like FOAF spreading. Even Digg has made much of its context semantic now (check the source code)
- zeteo 16y agoI meant that it failed to even remotely match the growth rate of organically adopted solutions like HTML and JS.