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Then what is empirically wrong with trio programming? If the pair programming wonks actually have data to show that it is a net benefit, then they surely must have evidence showing that 2 is a good maximum on return.

Like to this day, I have never seen any reproducible strong evidence provided that pair programming is beneficial. And I don't know if I would call the occasional ad-hoc (unstructured) "pairing" anything other than what a normal person would call it: "two people collaborating like normal fucking human beings."

But if there is evidence that 2 is better than 1, why is 3 or 4 not even better?

> We think Tree Notation might be the trick to getting the semantic web vision realized.

I'm not sure what Tree Notation fundamentally brings to the table that RDF and microformats, etc do not..

Have you read: https://people.well.com/user/doctorow/metacrap.htm

How does Tree Notation address anything listed there?

The semantic web has never been about technological limitations or tooling problems. And ever if it were, that is solving the simple problem.

A Z80 running an implementation of lisp is not a lisp machine, sorry. Not an apt comparison.

You might want to lookup what a real lisp machine is.

The idea that you need to test with infinite inputs to be "objective" is preposterous. You can in fact test with one input and the result is still objective, and you can conclude that it is objectively terrible or not on that one input. In reality, a suite of real world tests within your application domain provides actual useful information -- those aren't arbitrary benchmarks if that's the actual code you care about.

Because while XML has types and schemas, the actual implementation and ergonomics is absolute garbage. Those things matter to intelligent people.

No. You can evaluate compiler speed, memory use, quality of error output, generated code quality, ie most of what anyone cares about without knowing what's in it.

Pedantically its WWVB, the LW digital code version, not WWV the SW station. WWV/H/B were at risk for defunding, but their funding was renewed.