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Re:XMPP Myths by stonogo on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @09:33AM (#10040893)
All of your invective was exactly what programmers were saying to XML proponents in the early days of XML. I still can't entirely tell if you're deliberately doing this or if you really are just wholly unaware of yourself.

> The notion that binary serialization is difficult comes from the most profoundly lazy evaluations possible, where the most minimal of up front understanding are effort are eschewed if you can just open a text file and insert some giant mystery meat bags of XML.

etc etc

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Re:XMPP Myths by inversionOf on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @09:51AM (#10041018)
I recall approximately no one making that argument. That isn't to say there aren't terrible misuses of XML (the database within a database notion that, while sometimes necessary, is every beginner's mistake), but you're juxtaposing an absurd invention that isn't actually real at all. XML filled a role.
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