Gmane
From: Joseph Carter <knghtbrd <at> efn.org>
Subject: Re: Re: Init replacement
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
Date: 2003-05-04 19:34:49 GMT (6 years, 8 weeks, 6 days, 14 hours and 25 minutes ago)

On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 06:49:28PM +0200, Bj?rn Lindstr?m wrote:
> SGML (and thus HTML) was never originally intended to be human
> readable/hackable. The same goes for XML. It is designed to be
> easily _parsed_, not easily _read_.

Well obviously that worked well then, given the non-triviality of any
complete SGML parser.

I've got this feeling, shared by others I think, that XML is a hammer and
everyone's looking for nail-like objects.

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