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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually its doing a 180.

  2. Re:Hang on... by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: 5, Informative

    It is doing a 360

    Going around in circles yet ending up where you started? I think you mean 180.

    We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
    - Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks

    That sounds like the Mavs., going around in circles but never really going anywhere.
    - Me.

    Well, then anyway, they're not all that bad at the moment, best motion offense in the league.