Re: Emacs documentation.

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 29.09.2007 um 17:47 schrieb Dave Pawson:

> > XML isn't any good as a source format; it's designed to be  
> > parseable by
> > programs with minimum effort, and places no value on being  
> > readable or
> > writeable.  Using XML/Docbook as a source language would be taking a
> > step back to 1960s technology:
>
> Rubbish.

Can't you sleep just one night over it? This is what I learned from  
military service.

> > (ii) Instead of using single character block delimiters like "{}"  
> > in C
> > or "()" in Lisp, XML uses long, long keywords, e.g.
> > "<VeryLongUnreadableDelimiter>" to open a block and
> > "</VeryLongUnreadableDelimiter>" to close it.  This harks back to
> > Algol's and Pascal's "BEGIN" and "END".  It also reduces the  
> > readability
> > and signal to noise ratio horribly.  Hackers detest prolixity.  ;-)
>
> It's called semantic markup.

How about usable markup?


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  Pete

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