From: T. O. <tra...@ru...> - 2003-12-07 20:15:01
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My 2 nickles worth on the matter: If any technology stands a chance of bringing some rationality to date-time notaton, it is Yaml. Don't be afraid to buck trends if you truly have a better way. (Just make sure it is in fact better.) After all, Yaml exists, to some degree, because it bucked the XML trend. Right? :-) T. P.S. IMHO, standards are very important. Yet, for some reason, standards comittees tend do an aweful job, especially the w3c. For example, in many ways the HTML standard has gotten worse, not better, over successive generations -- The <center> tag, for instance, is deprecated, but you'd be hard pressed to find a single browser that dosen't support it. |