- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:48:44 -0700
- To: gandhi.mukul@gmail.com
- Cc: raman@google.com, www-tag@w3.org
Humans write programs, machines consume them. Let's hope we dont evolve into a world where things work the other way around. Mukul Gandhi writes: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:44 AM, T.V Raman <raman@google.com> wrote: > > Language experience over the centuries $(ÿ > > once having evolved to perfection die. Said differently, Latin > > and Sanskrit are no longer spoken;-) > > I am not sure, how spoken languages relate to programming languages > like XML. Programming languages are used in machine computations, > while spoken languages are not. > > > Let's $(ÿ > > the Web --- though I fear that circumstances may have already > > caused that to happen. > > I am not sure, how XML is competing with HTML or XHTML on the web. I > think, HTML still is a leading technology on a web browser. I wish > though, that people use XHTML on the browser, as it's a HTML dialect > and is well-formed (so XHTML is like XML on a web browser). It seems, > web browsers do not comply widely to latest XHTML standards, as they > do for HTML and XML. I do not know, why browser vendors choose to do > this? > > Allowing me to write web pages in XHTML, makes it possible to process > XHTML by XML tools (I can transform it with XSLT, process it via > DOM/SAX or whatever). > > > -- > Regards, > Mukul Gandhi
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