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Re: patterns vs. identifiers

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• Subject: Re: patterns vs. identifiers
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 02:20:32 +1000
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From: "Miles Sabin" <miles@m...>

> I'm obviously missing something, because of the ten design goals listed 
> at the the top of the XML REC only one, "XML documents should be 
> human-legible and reasonably clear", speaks to humanity. The bulk of 
> the remainder address automated processing and the needs of 
> programmers.

Surely a single simple statement like that is enough?  I don't think you
can weigh thase goals as if they are the results of a competition where
machines win 9:1 over humans.  

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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