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On Feb 23, 2007, at 13:33, Elliotte Harold wrote:
> Robin Berjon wrote:
>> Never ascribe to malice yadda yadda.
>
> It's not malice so much as mysteriousness. Often what we can't see
> and don't understand seems more significant than what we can. Is a
> magic show as much fun if you know how all the tricks are done?
>
> When you pull back the curtain and see how little is really going
> on, you're often a lot less impressed than when you didn't
> understand what is going on. That's as true in technology as magic.
> Both are the art of making seemingly complex things happen through
> relatively simple trickery.
Right, but that's pretty much my point: these people don't see XML as
being any less mysterious than a binary version of it. You load it in
a text editor and you see a bunch of pointy things. It's all "stuff
on the wire", things that "you don't see in the IDE", and "I made
this pretty tree in my XML editor, why should I care how it's saved?
I don't look inside HTML page any more than I look inside Word
documents".
That segment of the industry (and I don't think that it's small) will
not be convinced not to misuse binary XML with arguments against it,
but with clear arguments about the supremacy of text. I honestly
can't count the number of times that I had to go through that routine.
--
Robin Berjon
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Monsters — all teeth and digestive tract, no brains at all.
-- Calvin & Hobbes
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