Re: The Next Generation of Lisp Programmers

Subject: Re: The Next Generation of Lisp Programmers
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 25 Aug 2002 19:06:43 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3239291203086002@naggum.no>

* Tim Bradshaw
| Maybe I've missed the point of what you are saying, or of what SGML could
| do, but my impression is that while validatability is clearly very desirable
| goal, SGML/XML don't actually provide it in a way that makes it useful.

  Please note that I listed "the primitive language for content models" as one
  of the grave mistakes.  Validatability is a /good idea/ in SGML that is not
  achieved with SGML.  XML did not go anywhere useful with any of this.  I am
  continually amazed that people do not see through the crap.

-- 
Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway

Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder.
Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.