- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 00:15:43 -0400 (EDT)
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----- Forwarded message from Simon St.Laurent ----- From simonstl@simonstl.com Thu Jul 12 23:34:32 2001 Envelope-to: cowan@localhost Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost ident=cowan) by mercury.ccil.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15Ktiq-0006LF-08 for <cowan@localhost>; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 23:34:32 -0400 Received: from mail.reutershealth.com by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.3.3) for cowan@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 12 Jul 2001 23:34:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from one.elistx.com (one.elistx.com [209.116.252.130]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA09029 for <jcowan@reutershealth.com>; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:08:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.eListX.com by eListX.com (PMDF V6.0-24 #44856) id <0GGE00L010C3DQ@eListX.com> for jcowan@reutershealth.com; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:05:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ELIST-DAEMON.eListX.com by eListX.com (PMDF V6.0-24 #44856) id <0GGE00L040C1DI@eListX.com> (original mail from simonstl@simonstl.com) ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:04:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.eListX.com by eListX.com (PMDF V6.0-24 #44856) id <0GGE00L010C1DG@eListX.com> for xml-dev@elist.lists.xml.org (ORCPT xml-dev@lists.xml.org); Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:04:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from DIRECTORY-DAEMON.eListX.com by eListX.com (PMDF V6.0-24 #44856) id <0GGE00L010C0DF@eListX.com> for xml-dev@elist.lists.xml.org (ORCPT xml-dev@lists.xml.org); Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:04:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from serrano.hesketh.net (serrano.hesketh.net [66.45.6.210]) by eListX.com (PMDF V6.0-24 #44856) with ESMTP id <0GGE00JC10C0JF@eListX.com> for xml-dev@lists.xml.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:04:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.124.14] (syr-24-24-11-230.twcny.rr.com [24.24.11.230]) by serrano.hesketh.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6D12wN18166; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:02:58 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:04:46 -0400 From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com> Subject: RE: Just a Little Explanaton for Veering (RE: Blueberry/Unicode/ XML) In-reply-to: <OHEPIPNFLKEOGKLBBAKHEEEFCGAA.donpark@docuverse.com> To: Don Park <donpark@docuverse.com> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org Message-id: <994986287.794.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Evolution/0.10 (Preview Release) X-Received-From: simonstl@simonstl.com X-Delivered-To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org X-Spam-Filter: check_local@serrano.hesketh.net by digitalanswers.org X-More-Information: http://spamfighter.hesketh.net References: <OHEPIPNFLKEOGKLBBAKHEEEFCGAA.donpark@docuverse.com> List-Owner: <mailto:xml-dev-help@lists.xml.org> List-Post: <mailto:xml-dev@lists.xml.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:xml-dev-request@lists.xml.org?body=subscribe> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:xml-dev-request@lists.xml.org?body=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev> List-Help: <http://lists.xml.org/elists/admin_email.shtml>, <mailto:xml-dev-request@lists.xml.org?body=help> X-UIDL: 26745f63a14fdb79a80aabcd71cefb27 On 12 Jul 2001 17:14:07 -0700, Don Park wrote: > I beg to differ. XML is popular in China/Korea/Japan because they are > already familiar with HTML and of all the hoopla we are making in the > Western Hemisphere over it as the next Holy Grail. They have tinkered with > Chinese-enabled Forth and > other languages, but they have accepted limitations of C, Java, and Perl > without any significant complaint. I haven't heard anyone complaining why > the new C# identifiers can't be Chinese. Why is it such an issue in XML > names? Maybe it's just that there's a general expectation that markup should not require the same level of skill or training that working in C, Java, or Perl does. HTML was English-based and ugly, but it was a relatively tiny, constrained, and abbreviated vocabulary. Unlike HTML (or programming languages), XML has the potential to go anywhere semantically, so I can't see any good reason to constrain it linguistically. ------------------------------------------------------------------ The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@lists.xml.org ----- End of forwarded message from Simon St.Laurent ----- -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter
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