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• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 23:16:01 +0100
• Cc: "'Elliotte Rusty Harold'" <elharo@m...>,"'Dave Pawson'" <dpawson@n...>
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> 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. 

Michael Kay

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