Re: Sync with gnome releases¥@

Al Snell alaric@alaric-snell.com
Sun, 22 Jul 2001 10:42:22 +0100 (BST)


On 20 Jul 2001, Lauren Matheson wrote:

> (favoring xml).  The response was that xml could easily be generated for
> export, but that other apps shouldn't be directly accessing the data
> file anyway.  There's some UI stuff still in with bonobo, but I think

Aye. One of the biggest badnesses of XML is the encouragement to abandon
data hiding. I've even seen talk on xml-dev that XML is "post OO" and that
data hiding is another one of those silly academic mental masturbation
exercises like formal methods or proving software is correct.
Nnnnnnnnggggmmmmmfffff!

ABS

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