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Why XML Doesn't Suck

Posted by michael on from the batter-up dept.

Richard Eriksson writes "Recalling the earlier discussion on why XML sucks for programmers, Tim Bray clarifies his stance on his co-creation, XML, and gets back on his pulpit to declare that XML Doesn't Suck. He writes: 'Let's look at some of XML's chief virtues, then I'll address some of the XML-sucks arguments, in the same spirit that Sammy Sosa addresses a fastball.'"

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  1. Re:Hang on... by shr3k · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "It is doing a 360"

    Me: "180, you stupid, spaghetti-slurping cretin -- *180*! If [he] did a 360, [he]'d go completely around and end up back where [he] started."

    You: (pondering): Huh?

    Me: Never mind. (fires off near-troll post).

    (ref: Last Action Hero)