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   RE: [xml-dev] FYI: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, 11 May 1930 -- 6 August 2002

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Which is sort of why programmers had to finally 
sort out the markup industry.   It isn't that 
they liked markup; it took authors to realize 
the necessity of making sure that trains had 
easily accessed toilets; it took programmers 
to make them actually easily accessible when 
all hooked together in one train.

So programming skill comes down to toilet training. 
Authoring comes down to understanding which way 
to walk on a train; so they are trained by the 
programmers.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Lowery [mailto:jlowery@scenicsoft.com]


Here's his lovely parable about toilets on trains:

http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/inv/burros/ewd594.htm




 

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