XML quote Re: Meeting Notes: SLUG Mon 14 Nov - Google Earth and
everything else
Bill Ricker
bill.n1vux at gmail.com
Tue Nov 14 07:33:06 EST 2006
> "XML is for people who don't understand Scheme." (not my quote,
> that just seems like such good flamewar fodder that I had to pass it
> along)
There's nothing new under the sun. Each generation thinks they
invented sex and fast square root algorithms.
I've said for years, if LISP stands for Lots of Invidious Silly
Parentheses, ><ML has twice as many bent-til-they-snapped brackets
and usesancient ENDIF syntax, as if syntax-aware editors couldn't
handle closing-brace-match.
The advantages of XML are that (a) people without a Lisp can get a
parser without getting a Lisp parser (b) Marketing thinks it's great.
Another old quote -- every non-trivial application has a non-trivial
subset of a Lisp interpretter (and/or Fortran library) embedded, but
implemented badly.
--
Bill
n1vux at arrl.net bill.n1vux at gmail.com
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