Re: Quote of the day
Peter Flynn <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.text.xml.devel |
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| Organization | Silmaril Consultants |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 12/05/2022 12:10, Norman Gray wrote: > > On 12 May 2022, at 11:53, Roger L Costello wrote: > >> "Yes, working with the XSD specification is a nightmare; it's the >> toughest spec I've ever had to work with other than Algol 68, and >> unlike Algol 68, some of the apparent formality turns out to be >> spurious; when it gets to tricky things that ought to be formal, >> like whether two types are identical, the spec bails out." > > I remember reading the HyTime spec, and remember feeling a modest > sense of achievement when I managed to work out what it was talking > about, and realised that what it was talking about was not what it > said it was talking about, and that the former was significantly more > interesting than the latter. I've had a similar feeling over the years, realising that what a spec really described was a level of meta-ness I hadn't known even existed. Peter _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: [email protected] subscribe: [email protected] List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php