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Re: W3C's five new XQuery/Xpath2 working drafts - Still miss

• To: "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@S...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: W3C's five new XQuery/Xpath2 working drafts - Still missing Updates
• From: "James Clark" <jjc@j...>
• Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:04:12 +0700
• References: <9A4FC925410C024792B85198DF1E97E4021BDC6F@u...>

> No amount of post-hoc formalism can create elegance when it
> does not exist in the core of a design.

Phil Wadler has a quote I like (due to John Reynolds):

"Semanticists should be obstetricians, not coroners of programming
languages."

James

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