On 26/01/2014 02:33, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Here's a simple programming expression, familiar to most people, common
to hundreds of programming languages:
3+4*5
Here it is written as XML:
<add><int>3</int><mult><int>4</int><int>5</int></mult></add>
Source:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-sbxml/index.html
More here:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/05/xml-the-angle-bracket-tax.html
http://myarch.com/why-xml-is-bad-for-humans/
If you expect a human being to routinely *read*, let alone *write*, XML
in preference to some real programming language, that is a horrible,
horrible thing. Using XML as an internal, machine-generated, format not
intended for humans is not too bad. Anything else is abusive.
If I worked as a consultant I'd much prefer the XML version as I'd be
able to charge much more on the grounds that I'd done much more, hoping
that the people paying didn't bother with design reviews or the like :)
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