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Paul Prescod <paul@p...> writes:
> Tim Bray wrote:
> >
> > Note "machine-readable" in the sentence above. At this point in history,
> > it's the human-readable part of schemas that seem to me to have the
> > biggest payoffs, because that's what the programmers read before they
> > write the code that actually does something useful. -Tim
>
> Any programmer that reads the prose but doesn't read the schema is bound
> to make many avoidable assumptions and mistakes.
Et vice-versa. The only reason that formal languages are less
ambiguous than natural ones is that they're not capable of saying much
in the first place.
All the best,
David
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