• To: Bob Foster <bob@o...>
• Subject: Re: XML-aware programming language?
• From: Burak Emir <Burak.Emir@e...>
• Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 13:34:03 +0100
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Bob Foster wrote:

> Burak Emir wrote:
>
>> I don't like to get philosophical, but what is more responsible:
>>
>> help the 1% by letting the cause persist and curing effect of the 
>> ill-defined spec, or
>> helping the 99% which includes the tool writers, by fixing the cause.
>
>
> Implementing the specs as written is most responsible.
>
Certainly, and I wonder why it must be so hard to respect the spec, and 
why the next version of it should not be better. My comment was about 
the future version.

Or does one just accept it and look forward to ever more, fully 
backwards compatible versions that repeat the mess and add on top of that?

regards,
Burak Emir

http://lamp.epfl.ch/~buraq

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