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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] don't shoot me
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In-Reply-To: <000501c34d3f$04b5af40$2a8be793@gli.cas.cz>; from pac on Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 05:12:35PM +0200
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:17:01 +0200
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 05:12:35PM +0200, pac wrote:
>
> as an absolute amateur (and before diving into) i would like to know your
> opinion on XML
> (the voices vary from the "[1]best thing since the invention of pre-sliced
> bread" and "eXtremely Messed-up Language[5]"
>
I like XML as an information exchange language for diverse platforms.
Being as vast as it is, it no doubt will be abused more often than
properly employed.  But I am not aware of any preferable alternative
(ASN.1?).

++L