- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:10:00 -0600
- To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.manchester.ac.uk>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "www-tag@w3.org WG" <www-tag@w3.org>
On Feb 16, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Bijan Parsia wrote: ... >> I'll be the first one to agree that XML is not something for >> everybody, but I thought we were talking about CS students? > > I pointed to CS students since they were more likely, I think a > priori, to do better. Prima facie, if they have difficulty, it's > unlikely that arbitrary populations will have an easy time. ... Might I suggest that this seems to be the crux of the disagreement here? Julian sees XML as a tool for the professional computer scientist to use, applying to it the same set of professional skills and good practices one would expect of the professional user of any (other?) programming language. Bijan sees XML, in contrast, as something that anyone should be able to use (perhaps with a little practice and a quick read of a thin O'Reilly book) and certainly anyone should be able to quickly learn to understand. For Julian, a CS student is the low end of the trainee spectrum: for Bijan, a CS student is the high end of an arbitrary population. Bijan can certainly claim that XML has been touted in these kind of terms; but then Julian might reply, not by him. Pat ------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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