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> -----Original Message----- > From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@m...] > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 3:46 AM > To: Alaric B. Snell > Cc: XML Dev > > Even more importantly, the signal is analog and interpreted > by humans rather than computers (most of the time). Humans > deal a lot better with noisy data. They can fill dropped > words and degraded signals far beyond what computers can > handle. This also makes the phone network far more robust in practice. > > However, XML isn't designed to solve these problems. XML > works in the much tougher domain of enabling > computer-to-computer communication. It's harder for two > computers to talk to and understand each other than two > people. This is such a bogus argument it isn't even worth refuting. I'm just stunned that anyone can drink the XML Kool Aid to this extent. -- PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM Drive defensively--buy a tank. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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