[Zope3-dev] Discussion: Configuration vs. Configuration

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fred@zope.com
Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:51:04 -0400


Guido van Rossum writes:
 > I know this is an argument one cannot win (I'm not even sure if you're
 > not being facetious), but (a) that never stopped all the other XML
 > dialects from having "ML" in their name,

Not all of them, thankfully!

 > (b) following this reasoning the "M" in XML shouldn't be there either,

Perhaps not; this really reflected it's heritage and expected
applications.

 > (c) it depends on how you define "markup": if you think of "markup"
 > as "inserting markers in text" I think it's a defensible use.

Definately!


  -Fred

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