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Re: Has my brain been altered by too much time spentwriting XS

• From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@gmail.com>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
• Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 16:32:58 -0800

> What's happened to me?
>
> Have I "been assimilated"?

No, you have just grown up a little ... :)

"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to
grow sharper."  Bertrand Russel


Cheers,
Dimitre



On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote:
> Norman Gray wrote on October 18, 2013:
>
>> if you spend a lot of time looking at XSLT,
>> then your eyes adjust and you stop seeing
>> the pointy brackets and end-tags; but (a)
>> that only works if you spend a _lot_ of time
>> with it, and (b) 'you eventually get used to it'
>
> I read that when Norman said it back in October and it has haunted me. A little voice inside me keeps repeating:
>
>         Roger, you no longer see the pointy brackets
>         and end tags. XSLT seems perfectly normal to
>         you. Has your brain been altered by years of
>         writing XSLT?
>
> Yikes! And XML Schema and Namespaces also seem perfectly normal to me. My brain breaks data up into markup grammars and categorizes data by namespaces.
>
> What's happened to me?
>
> Have I "been assimilated"?
>
> /Roger
>
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  • Has my brain been altered by too much time spent writing XSLT, XSD,and namespaces?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>