30 Nov
2014
30 Nov
'14
10:18 p.m.
On November 30, 2014 12:30:57 PM EST, Robert Ramey
Bjorn Reese wrote
This is one reason why I have a lot of reservations about the whole concept of of the "standard library". Maybe the world is a better place if it has room for various serialization libraries which implement similar ideas but with different choices and compromises. A standard library can't do this.
Once there's a standard version of something, people get comfortable using it because it's available as a default. When that proves insufficient, they start looking for something better elsewhere. That means getting something decent, but not ideal, in the Standard can jumpstart things. ___ Rob (Sent from my portable computation engine)