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Re: [xml-dev] XML-aware programming language?

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To: Burak Emir <Burak.Emir@epfl.ch>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] XML-aware programming language?
From: Bob Foster <bob@objfac.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 20:56:33 -0800
Cc: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>,XML Developers List <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
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Burak Emir wrote:
> I don't like to get philosophical, but what is more responsible:
> 
> help the 1% by letting the cause persist and curing effect of the 
> ill-defined spec, or
> helping the 99% which includes the tool writers, by fixing the cause.

Implementing the specs as written is most responsible.

Bob Foster

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