• To: 'Mike Champion' <mc@x...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: RE: XML should NOT be a new programming language
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:33:01 -0600

As in, when overplanted, it kills everything 
around it.  You have to tear out the pines 
to plant a decent lawn.  On the other hand, 
they make a decent wind break precisely 
because they are flexible.

Systems interoperate.  Data is portable.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@x...]

3/4/2002 9:45:01 AM, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...> wrote:
>

>XML:  the pine tree of syntax-unified systems.

Uhhh, more cryptic than usual today, Len :~)

"Pine" as in soft, easily workable wood that is marginally suitable for almost anything, 
but not really optimal for most high-quality work?  Or "pine" as the tree that quickly 
colonizes a disturbed area, but is replaced by the hardwoods once it has stabilized the 
local ecology a bit?

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