Must you understand this, or may you ignore it?

Inspired by Tim Bray’s talk “On Language Creation”, David Megginson posted some concerns about the must-ignore/must-understand XML design pattern. Sean McGrath followed-up.

For my own part, I offered the following poster at the XML 2005 conference:

[Photo]
[Flickr]

Truth or beauty?

Last I checked, there were three votes for beauty and none for truth.

Comments:

Depending on that picture I prefer truth more ;)

Posted by Eugene on 10 Dec 2005 @ 07:41pm UTC #
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