• From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:30:16 +0000

 >Engineers (I'm one) tend to value concision in expression

Engineers also value robustness, and robustness is often achieved by 
building in redundancy.

If we were real engineers we would be discussing this in quantitative 
terms: the cost of the redundancy versus its value.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

• References:
  • Fixing what's broke
    • From: Bill Lindsey <bill@b...>