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Re: An open plea to the W3C (was Re: XInclude vs SAX vs

• From: Jeff Greif <jgreif@a...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:25:43 -0700

<OT>An even stronger form of condemnation came from the German physicist
Wolfgang Pauli, who scornfully dismissed a theoretical argument as "not even
wrong!"
</OT>

Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fuchs, Matthew" <matthew.fuchs@c...>
To: "'Steven R. Newcomb'" <srn@c...>
Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 3:53 PM
Subject: RE: An open plea to the W3C (was Re: XInclude vs SAX vs


> That was Tony Hoare.  The quote, as I recall, was something like, "they
> won't even know if it's wrong".  I.e., because you couldn't prove an
> implementation was correct due to the large size of Ada.  This is similar
to

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