On 30 June 2010 15:54, Pietro Gagliardi <pietr...@mac.com> wrote:
> A friend on AIM who I showed this quote to suggested XML should drop named
> close tags as a solution: <tag>stuff</>
> "C and Ratfor programmers find BEGIN and END bulky compared to { and }." -
> bwk
>The </> suggestion has come up 8000 times in as many forums, to no avail. Supposedly, the excess verbosity makes it more readable/less error-prone.
