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At 10:23 AM 8/3/2002 -0400, Didier PH Martin wrote:
> For the moment, we fulfilled the lowest levels at the syntaxic level but
> still do not provide useful tools for 80% of the problems resolved by
> developers. When developers are using a Perl, C++ or visual basic program
> they DO NOT HAVE TO WRITE NOR HAVE TO
>USE A PARSER.
And that's _all_ that XML should solve. Piling the other 80% of the work
into XML is precisely what brought us to the unspeakable mess we have
today, whoever's incredible fault it may be.
The first 20% is usually the easiest, and 20% is often about as much of a
project as I can make into generic tools I reuse for other projects. That
seems perfectly natural to me. Solving the other 80% generically is not a
worthwhile project, especially if it makes the first 20% less accessible.
Simon St.Laurent
"Every day in every way I'm getting better and better." - Emile Coue
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