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Re: Perceived C/B for XML 1.1

• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: Perceived C/B for XML 1.1
• From: Berend de Boer <berend@x...>
• Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 07:37:13 +1300
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John Cowan wrote:

>Be liberal in what you accept, conservative in what you send.
>
Eh, what was the name of that language, yeah, that one with the buffer 
overflows. C, that's the name!

I think this world would be a better place if we were very conservative 
in what we accept. If you aren't, the generators are sloppy as well, 
because faults are never detected. And if a big vendor makes a fault in 
its generation, you even run the danger of becoming it a standard.

Regards,

Berend. (-:

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