From: Ka-Ping Yee (ping@lfw.org)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 02:26:51 PST
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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 02:07:48 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Is Intel doing anything at all novel here?
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Dan Kohn wrote:
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> Except for supporting XML as the new language of the Internet and getting
> its partners to pledge to making sure their technologies will work across a
> wide variety of platforms, details of Intel's plan are still vague.
XML is not a "language" at all, because it carries zero semantics.
It is even less of a language than HTML.
(Just as you cringe -- and i hope you do -- when people call HTML
a "programming language", you should also cringe when people refer
to XML as a "langauge".)
XML is a tree serialization format, no more and no less.
-- ?!ng
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
-- Pablo Picasso
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