• To: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• Subject: Re: xml 2.0 - so it's on the way after all?
• From: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>
• Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:50:34 +1100
• Cc: "'David Lyon'" <david.lyon@c...>, xml-dev@l...
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Michael Kay wrote:

>>I can see your point. I guess they chose the less and greater than
>>characters because they look a bit smoother on the screen 
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>Screen? We're talking about the 1960s.
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the selectric was a bit short on characters (so were the early line 
printers) we used ( - overstruck for { in our early c work.

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