XML quote Re: Meeting Notes: SLUG Mon 14 Nov - Google Earth and
everything else
Kevin D. Clark
kclark at elbrysnetworks.com
Tue Nov 14 09:09:54 EST 2006
"Bill Ricker" <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> writes:
>> "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.
I agree with this all 100%. XML is just another markup language for
me. Earlier in my career ASN.1 and BER-encoding were my bread and
butter. Nowadays XML has more popularity (probably deservedly so).
Regards,
--kevin
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