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Gervase Markham's Second Times Online Column Published
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No, it is the Massachusetts servers that are wise here: they want a documented format that allows them to exchange data in a way that allows them to understand, and continue to understand, what it is that they are exchanging, preferably without humans getting their sticky fingers in.
And was about time! I have been arguing until green in the face that visual formatting, 'finger painting', is evil. Hardly anybody listens. I like the LaTeX document processor that did this avant la lettre, long before everyone started getting worked up about XML.
The more I get to know humans, the more I like computers. Here's to hoping that computers will soon take over this planet from their disastrous carbon-based predecessors, and that they may do a better job of it ;-)
OK I know, grumpy afternoon...