• To: Bob Foster <bob@o...>
• Subject: Re: The triples datamodel -- was Re: Semantic Web permathread, iteration n+1
• From: Henrik Martensson <henrik.martensson@b...>
• Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 22:39:21 +0200
• Cc: Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@n...>, Ari Nordström <mayfair@t...>, XML Developer List <xml-dev@l...>, "'Elliotte Rusty Harold'" <elharo@m...>, "'Dave Pawson'" <dpawson@n...>
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On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 00:26, Bob Foster wrote:
> Michael Kay wrote:
>  >>IMHO, XML's biggest mistake was to make validation optional.
>  >
>  > I sense a general law here. For every successful technology T, T's 
> biggest
>  > mistake was the feature that made T successful.
>  >
>  > For example, Java's biggest mistake was trying to make the language
>  > compatible with C.
> 
> And XSLT's biggest mistake was XML syntax?
> 
You two are definitely on to something. :-)

Perl's biggest mistake was probably integrating regex syntax in the
language.


/Henrik

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