Are There Too Many Standards?

Posted by Cliff on Friday October 8, 2004 @02:45AM from the more-choices-make-better-options dept.

CyNRG asks: "Lately, I've been reviewing the different programming and protocol standards in an effort to guide my career in the most fun and profitable direction. The proliferation of standards is astounding! Choosing which path to follow is more like a trip to Las Vegas. Standing at the craps table in Ceasar's Palace at 3:00 am: do I play the point? Big 6 or 8? Play the field? How about covering the hard ways? The world is using technology more and more, so I would expect more standards based on that fact. It seems like common knowledge, vis-a-vis Microsoft, that companies try to put forth 'standards' in an roll of the dice to make their 'standard' defacto. Are there too many standards?"

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Three acronyms by Bastian · 2004-10-08 03:59 · Score: 4, Insightful

Three acronyms for ya:
CRLF
CR
LF

We have three major computer platforms, and three different standards for the line terminator in plaintext files.

Of course there are too many standards.