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Some others of note: "...the WHOLE POINT of XML is to live at the nexus of human and machine systems." -- Mike Champion "Reductionism may be wonderful for computers, but it's not very useful for the rest of us. At least in theory, XML is supposed to provide a middle ground between human and machine-readable." -- Simon St. Laurent "XML is for developers. XML is for authors. XML is for anyone that needs to add type and structure to information." -- Aaron Skonnard And for fun: "What was the design objective for this program? If it was to be as unreadable as possible and as slow as possible at the same time, while still failing to produce correct results, then I think it has probably been achieved." -- Michael Kay -----Original Message----- From: Costello, Roger L. [mailto:costello@mitre.org] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 2:49 PM To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org Subject: I nominate these xml-dev postings as two of the all-time great postings Hi Folks, I nominate the below xml-dev postings as two of the all-time great postings. /Roger --------------------- Henry Thompson --------------------- "Why is text marked up" ? To make explicit for mechanical processing what is implicit-but-evident in the original. ----------------------------------- Michael Sperberg-McQueen ----------------------------------- 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. Henry Thompson's post: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/201201/msg00078.html Michael Sperberg-McQueen's post: http://www.oxygenxml.com/archives/xml-dev/200902/msg00158.html _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php
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