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Part of the problem was that I couldn't even get people to dig into the specification. I came away with the distinct impression that people really don't want t

Part of the problem was that I couldn't even get people to dig into the specification. I came away with the distinct impression that people really don't want to admit that XML is good enough.

smaudet 4y ago
Thank Java and overcooked configuration files - everyone hates XML because it did too much for what it was being used for. And yet html is precisely xml, with attached rendering rules and a dialect, but nevertheless it doesn't garner as much hatred as XML. For complex object description it excels - as anyone who has used a complex UI description language knows, the 'lite' Json, yml, insert hipster conf file format here face a myriad of problems in description that they only somewhat make up for in simplicity. It is the flaw of misattributation of Occams rule to everything - simplicity is indeed efficient but it cannot account for complexity, and the world ends up a complex place.