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Michael Sperberg-McQueen: move eyeball (semantic) checking intomachine (

• From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
• To: "'xml-dev@lists.xml.org'" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 13:13:57 -0400

Hi Folks,

Michael Sperberg-McQueen made the following comment in a message a couple months ago. Since then it has strongly influenced my thinking. So, I thought I'd bring it back out again and share it with everyone.

    One of the great themes of computer science over the last 
    sixty years has been the long-running campaign to move more 
    and more things out of the "must be checked by eyeball" / 
    semantics area, and into the "can readily be checked by 
    machine" / syntax area.


http://www.oxygenxml.com/archives/xml-dev/200902/msg00158.html


/Roger