RE: Quote of the day
Roger L Costello <[email protected]>
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Lessons that I learned from Michael's quote: When writing a specification, not all things need to be specified formally. Don't have spurious formality. However, there are some things that need to be specified very rigorously; for them, do specify them formally. /Roger -----Original Message----- From: Roger L Costello <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2022 6:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Quote of the day "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." -- Michael Kay _______________________________________________________________________ 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