IMO the main problem with XML is that it required a little more thought and conceptual understanding than so many programmers were used to, so it was misused, and between the effort and misuse due to the effort, the result was the hate for XML.
Take the core question of tag vs attribute. It takes a little conceptual thought to think about which to use when.
And then you see badly implemented XML where some developer decided the "wrong" way. And your eyes bleed to see it :)
It's like seeing a badly designed SQL table with garbage crammed into fields that obviously should have been different columns in the table.
The difference is that at least the SQL would be internal, but XML tended to inflict itself on others.
Wow! I just realized that it is possible to post to a Lemmy group from your existing Mastodon account:
https://vijayprema.com/using-lemmy-from-my-existing-mastodon/
Summary:
First line of post is the title
A link or image will be attached to the post
Mention the group in your post on the last line in the usual Mastodon way, i.e. (at)lisp{at)lemmy.ml
This way, you don't need a separate account on Lemmy and can use your favourite Mastodon client: Emacs.
57 years ago on October 20, 1966, Patrick Volkerding was born.
Volkerding is best known as the founder and creator of Slackware, one of the earliest Linux distributions.
Slackware, introduced in 1993, quickly gained recognition for its simplicity and adherence to the Unix philosophy. While other Linux distributions embraced modern package management systems, Slackware maintained a more traditional approach
@SinclairSpeccy Happy birthday, @volkerdi!
Thank you for dedicating more than half of your life to making us slackers less grumpy when using our computers.
The winners of this year's "Small World" micro-photo competition are out. I'm especially intrigued by this astonishing shot: a struck match, caught at the exact moment of ignition.
(It ended up in second place, go figure.) #science #photography
https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2023-photomicrography-competition
Die Bundesregierung will Rüstungsexporte nach Israel vorrangig behandeln. Wie die Deutsche Presse-Agentur aus Regierungskreisen erfuhr, sollen Anträge von Unternehmen für Rüstungsexporte prioritär bearbeitet und genehmigt werden
https://www.handelsblatt.com/dpa/bundesregierung-will-ruestungsexporte-nach-israel-prioritaer-bearbeiten/29452072.html
⚪ Noch etwas Sonne?... ein
Lieblingsfoto.
🟤 Some more sun?... A favorite
photo.
📷 by Artist: #YumaAndLaura 🇩🇪 in Loc.: somewhere in Austria 🇦🇹 - Title: untitled - #Streetart #Art #Cats #Mastoart #PhotoArt #Photography #Fotografie #CatsOfMastodon ➡️ #APhotoLove
state licensed lolbert and hypernatalist with a breeding kink. never watched rick & morty and i'm proud of it.
don't only rely on my words, read what happy customers wrote about me: "10/10 would buy again", "top seller, great value", "wildly incorrect", "teil des problems", "without imagination", "Repeated provocation using copy/paste.", "if you take a dump in my mentions, I just might notice the smell", "log out and never login again", "Du redest wirr.", "My brother in Christ, this is such a ridiculously dumb statement that I will no longer entertain this silly conversation.", "Auf Derailing-Diskussionen habe ich keine Lust. Finger über dem Blocken-Knopf.", "Wie gesagt, du kannst der Diskussion inhaltlich nicht folgen."
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one day at a time.