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• Subject: RE: Markup perspective not code (was RE: Re: URIs, concrete)
• From: "Aaron Skonnard" <aarons@d...>
• Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:54:17 -0600
• Cc: "'Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)'" <clbullar@i...>,"'W. E. Perry'" <wperry@f...>,"'XML DEV'" <xml-dev@l...>
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> Uche Ogbuji replied:
> 
> As a hard-core programmer, I would scramble to distance myself from 
> such sentiment as quickly as possible.  It sounds like entirely 
> unwarranted arrogance.  Then again, I'm not surprised.  Programming 
> has as a profession one of the worst records of hypocrisy in its 
> regard for the laity versus the professionalism of its own practice.
> 
> In simpler language, programmers love to sneer at its users, while 
> keeping mute to the appallingly low levels of professionalism in their

> own ranks. Having spent a lot of time in XML-related development, I 
> can tell you that programmers of XML systems have no cause to feel 
> smug given how badly most of us butcher markup principles in our work.


Dude, this was intended as a humorous "jab" to help illustrate the exact
sentiment you're describing only turned against programmers on this
list.

-aaron
http://staff.develop.com/aarons

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