[Python-Dev] Re: NEWS consolidation (original) (raw)

Fran�ois Pinard pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
09 Apr 2002 22:05:48 -0400

[Guido van Rossum]

XML is unreadable and untypable.

Well, Lennart Staflin's superb PSGML package (for Emacs) makes SGML rather easy to type, and I guess it would make XML tractable as well. Without Emacs and PSGML, I would guess that typing XML is not easy. I would surely make myself something if I had to.

Much granted that XML is rebuking for the human reader, the information drawns under the noise. When "they" decided to design XML out of SGML, they compromised a bit too far towards machines, and away from humans. Nevertheless, and surprisingly to me, XML has been extremely successful.

My reluctance more or less vanished (but not my opinion!) after I used Glade, together with James Henstridge's libglade, of course! :-)

-- Fran�ois Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard