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RE: The subsetting has begun

  • To: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@m...>,"Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
  • Subject: RE: The subsetting has begun
  • From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
  • Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:04:13 -0800
  • Cc: "XML Dev" <xml-dev@l...>
  • Thread-index: AcLdj2o5G3MiucRIQiKc3NliXsPF6gAKW3dQ
  • Thread-topic: The subsetting has begun

RE:  The subsetting has begun
  
> -----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. 

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