• To: michael.h.kay@n..., 'Rick Jelliffe' <ricko@a...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Re: validating hairy data models (was Attribute order)
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 08:17:41 -0600

Pop doesn't have to be bad music.  It only has to be 
popular.  Code doesn't have to be obscure; it only 
has to do a job someone needs done.

Markup lives in the overlap between the requirement 
for a reliable vehicle and the occasional need for a 
user to look under the hood.   On the other hand, it 
is rare for a driver to fix a crankshaft.  In a world 
where implementors rule, markup becomes a racecar 
and only a highly trained pit crew can change a tire.

len

From: Michael Kay [mailto:michael.h.kay@n...]

> Without users, code is poetry, not product

But fortunately, the existence of users needn't reduce its poetic qualities.

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