HTML works out pretty well. If our biggest failures were 'failures' like 
HTML, we'd be doing pretty well.

Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote:
> From: "Walker, David" <[log in to unmask]>
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>> I'm not sure it's a _big_ mess, though, at least for metasearching.
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> I wasn't thinking  specifically about metasearch, but rather,  bad decisions 
> getting replicated and you end up with an installed base of bad 
> implementations. The best illustration would be the huge mess that HTML is.
>
> --Ray
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