[Gllug] Interesting article on the MS monopoly

Tethys tet at createservices.com
Fri Apr 30 13:43:48 UTC 2004


Gordon Joly writes:

>This is a hang over from SGML where comment delimeters where simply
>
>--
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>as I recall. It was a sop to SGML and XML doing similar things...

Yes, ISTR you're right. But its origins are largely irrelevant. The
fact is that it makes XML hugely sucky, and a pain in the ass to work
with.

Tet
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