> … in my life I have never before or since witnessed a media blitz for a "technical" standard as the coming out party for XML in the '90s. You don't remember

> … in my life I have never before or since witnessed a media blitz for a "technical" standard as the coming out party for XML in the '90s. You don't remember the coming-out party for Java? It's really sad: we could have had Lisp and s-expressions; instead we ended up with Java & XML, and now we have JavaScript and JSON (which go from bad to better in terms of usability, but bad to worse in terms of safety and stability).