Re: Why XML is a bad idea[longish] (was Re: [abcusers] draft for V:)

[John Chambers]

Richard Robinson wrote:
| On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, John Chambers wrote:
|
| > Is this feasible with any other musical formats?
|
| Yeah. You grab an instrument, go down the local pub, meet up with some
| other players, and play your tunes at them and let them do the same to
| you; and pretty soon they're playing some of your tunes, and you're
| playing some of theirs. If only in self-defence.
|
| :-))

Ah, the original World Wide Web ...

Of course, that method can take months or  years  to  spread  a  tune
around  the world, and it tends to get badly mangled in transit.  Now
we have the Internet to do the spreading in seconds,  and  the  email
"system" (with its infamous line-wrap daemon) to do the mangling. And
the fun that results when people decide that ABC should  be  packaged
inside HTML.

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