Re: lingua franca

["Laura J. Mixon" <ljm@digitalnoir.com>]

on 6/17/02 10:38 PM, Brandon J. Van Every   at vanevery@3DProgrammer.com
wrote:

> Todd Gemmell:
>> realizing that there are several cultures coming together
>> here and in a
>> lot of cases people are putting different spins on the same
>> words. Upon
>> later reflection I also realize there are many gaps in language to
>> describe what is and will be created out of this new "thing".
>> Certainly
>> Larry and I are not the first people to realize this. Has
>> anyone started
>> a glossary, pidgin or something along these lines?  Thoughts?
> 
> De facto standards require a critical mass of people interested in a
> problem and someone who actually does a buttload of work to create the
> technology upon which everyone else decides to come along for the ride.
> Without many people interested, and without some small outfit that lays
> a huge groundwork, everyone reinvents the wheel ad hoc forever.
> 

 

Last year, Walt Freitag (iirc) made a similar point.  Walt?