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approachabe & frugal & composable

Sean Conner sean at conman.org

Wed Jun 3 02:22:46 BST 2020

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It was thus said that the Great Martin Keegan once stated:

I don't think the existing standards-making systems can be relied upon to
produce something clean and module like a resource locator that couldn't
be extended into a Turing-complete language. Therefore, if we want to
have a minimalist alternative, we may need to depart somewhat from
re-using IETF / W3C standards, which I would support. The WWW already
exists for people who want the more complicated/ornate systems.

And if you think the bikeshedding on text/gemini is bad ...

-spc (Just a gut feeling here about a long, dark, slog)