xml-dev - Re: Off topic (Re: Embedding Content as Element Content or As An Attribu

[Tad McClellan <tadmc@metronet.com>]

> >An efficient language will provide not only a modeling syntax but also
> contractions.
> ...
> In the feb issue of Dr. Dobbs there is a fascinating interview with Larry
> Wall, creator of
> Perl. Being half linguist/half software genius he has some interesting things to
> say about the way languages evolve and the tension between ease of expression
> and language syntax. I found a resonance between what he was saying and the
> attribute/element content chestnut in SGML/XML.


I haven't seen that DDJ, but Larry's keynote from the recent Perl
conference is online:


   http://conference.perl.com/pub/talks/wall/keynote.html


-- 
    Tad McClellan                          SGML Consulting
    tadmc@metronet.com                     Perl programming
    Fort Worth, Texas

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