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From: Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@g...>
To: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@a...>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 06:14:24 -0400

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 9:24 PM Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@a...> wrote:

Is a Swiss Army knife (SGML) over-engineered compared to a knife and fork (XML)? For the people who need to do complex things, no. For the people who need to do a few simple things, yes.

I like the sentiment of the post but I have always seen the Swiss Army Knife as the epitome of under-engineering. Capable of doing everything .....badly.

No dis on SGML over which I plead ignorance, more wondering whether that's the apt analogy for it.

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- Re: What does it mean to say that XML was over-engineered?
  - From: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@a...>
- Re: What does it mean to say that XML was over-engineered?
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- What does it mean to say that XML was over-engineered?
  - From: Roger L Costello <costello@m...>
- Re: What does it mean to say that XML was over-engineered?
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