• From: Walter Underwood <wunder@i...>
• To: "Don Park" <donpark@d...>, <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:52:17 -0800

At 07:02 PM 11/27/99 -0800, Don Park wrote:
>
>SML is not about doing what XML *cannot*.  SML is about
>creating an ideal tool.

"ideal". For what use? That is why the use cases are important.
Without use cases, "ideal" is meaningless.

Also, highly-optimized solutions tend to be evolutionary dead
ends. I prefer tools that may not be perfect, but are well-defined,
widely-used, flexible, and have room for extension. Like XML.

wunder
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