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Re: [xml-dev] W3C's five new XQuery/Xpath2 working drafts - Still miss

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To: "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>, <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] W3C's five new XQuery/Xpath2 working drafts - Still missing Updates
From: "James Clark" <jjc@jclark.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:04:12 +0700
References: <9A4FC925410C024792B85198DF1E97E4021BDC6F@usmsg03.sagus.com>


> No amount of post-hoc formalism can create elegance when it
> does not exist in the core of a design.

Phil Wadler has a quote I like (due to John Reynolds):

"Semanticists should be obstetricians, not coroners of programming
languages."

James

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