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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Should Inline be private in the private part of a package spec?
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:28:20 +0200
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Date: 2012-08-20T21:28:20+02:00
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On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:22:50 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> On 20.08.12 16:15, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
>> Sorry, but diffusing the issue won't help you justify XML,
> 
> It is not my intent to justify XML or not.
> My intent is simply to say that perceptions like that of
> heterogeneity may influence the decision to ask for XML,
> and justifiably so.
> This has happened, for example in ways you have listed.

I don't see how.

> Related Example that has been part of this discussion,
> and concern compiler configuration files:

We have an excellent example how unmanageable Visual Studio became when MS
switched to XML.

I am sure that it also could be demonstrated with all scientific scrutiny
that XML is a poor choice for compiler configuration. As a hint observe
that configuration is no way hierarchical, that as any non-trivial thing it
must have several UIs very different ones and different from the interface
of the compiler itself. That it is non-trivial implies that the
configuration has a *semantics* far beyond dumb string to string mapping
which is all so-called XML "language" can offer.

But you forgot that you once called XML documentation. It became a language
by now? "Moving target?"

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de