From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: The horror that is XML References: <3C854CEB.78282CAF@nyc.rr.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3224436244016094@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 20:43:55 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1015447435 193.71.199.50 (Wed, 06 Mar 2002 21:43:55 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 21:43:55 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:27978 * Tim Bradshaw | This looks pretty toxic: complexity is a virus which is going to get us | all in the end unless we can find a way of simply not interacting with | the systems which contain the virus. This (and the preceding discussion) so succinctly sum up why I quit working with SGML and refuse to work with Microsoft's evil cruft. When it dawned me that after a person had figured out the point behind SGML, it would be more expensive to use SGML than any other tool, I could no longer write the book I was working on about SGML and had to get out. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.