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For those who don't know, Tim Bray was one of the original inventors of the XML spec and has been a Developer Advocate at Google for a while. Shame to see him

by habosa 13y ago

For those who don't know, Tim Bray was one of the original inventors of the XML spec and has been a Developer Advocate at Google for a while. Shame to see him go, I am joining DevRel at Google in the fall and I thought it was awesome to have someone as experience as Tim working kinda-sorta-near me. Hopefully he goes on to do something great.

rasur 13y ago
Implying XML is not great? ;)
- cbaleanu 13y ago
  Ahhh, you can write webpages in it.
- habosa 13y ago
  I guess I should have said more great things, as Tim has already accomplished a lot.
- ithkuil 13y ago
  Great men make great mistakes :-)
ebbv 13y ago
> Tim Bray was one of the original inventors of the XML spec That son of a bitch... ;)
- MichaelGG 13y ago
  Remove some DTDs. Then remove the completely-silly need to put the tag name in the closing tag, and hey, it's a nice format. At least it has comments and is suitable as a config file format, unlike JSON.
wglb 13y ago
He is also a serial founder, and, among other interesting things, wrote one of the very first web crawlers. See http://www.textuality.com/ http://www.textuality.com/ for some of his fun stuff.
eik3_de 13y ago
that is asking for XML - It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time