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who is arguing to throw anything away? i'm asking whether an authority is
going to be able to depend on documents in which its data depends on someone
elses. i'm asking, what belongs where?
and suggesting that, whether one admits it or not, insisting on the blanket
redundancy is the equivalent of sitting in front of a pile of fan-fold with a
very blunt pencil. a very large pile.
"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
>
> james.anderson@setf.de (james anderson) writes:
> >on the other hand, i can't put my finger on the last time i seriously
> >tried to interpret a stack trace without a symbol table. or rather
> >without some machine doing the interpretation for me. and even in the
> >days when i had to, it never would have occurred to me to expect to
> >find my comments in the machine code.
>
> I think markup's a completely different kind of toolset, with virtues
> you don't appear to value.
>
> Markup is capable of reaching people who'll never need or want to go
> anywhere near a stack trace. It's built that way explicitly, at a
> pretty high cost. Throwing away those features while working with XML
> seems perverse at best.
>
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