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A comment on Erik Naggum's XML Rant from 2002: Disturbingly prescient. Parent comment

Re:Erik Naggum's XML Rant from 2002: Disturbingly prescient by specialist on Saturday May 05, 2012 @05:58PM (#3933409)
You may not have been present during XML's ascendency. Naggum's rhetorical voice was a totally appropriate response. Being shouted down by the XML goon squad got real old real fast.
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Re:Erik Naggum's XML Rant from 2002: Disturbingly prescient by astrodust on Sunday May 06, 2012 @01:35AM (#3934255)
Sometimes you get so frustrated with being polite and civil and have no patience but to let loose with as vivid a picture of the problem as you can possibly unleash.

Civility leads to complacency. That was the post of someone with some serious conviction, not a passive participant who was indifferent to standards.

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