On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:00 pm, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> Walter, as much as I respect you, this is like
> saying all rifles should be handmade: in other
> words, no interchangeable parts.
The point is that even though *some* uses of rifles benefit from mass
production, it is unreasonable to expect *all* rifle components to be
interchangeable. After all, a Lee Enfield is great as a bush rifle, but I
wouldn't want to use it if I was a sniper.
> The days of SGML-pre-ESIS were a nightmare because of that.
Sure, but you also know that even though a lot of good things were done with
the ESIS, many/most *applications* didn't use it.
