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Subject: Re: Language choice (was: Re: Interactive XML)
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 16:30:31 +0100

Michael Kay writes:
 > Give me F(X) rather than
 > <FUNCTION><NAME>F</NAME><ARGUMENT>X</ARGUMENT></FUNCTION>
 > any day of the week.
well, give it to me, too, but 

 > And that is an even sadder joke. XML was designed for
 > marking-up documents, not for defining the syntax of
 > programming languages (even declarative ones).

surel XML was designed to mark up *anything*, not just "documents"
(whatever that means). Don't the lessons of Knuth's literate
programming mean anything? your script *is* a `document'.

Sebastian



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