Posted by dorayme on 05/20/06 02:26

In article <tdebg.1945$mg3.1392@reader1.news.jippii.net>,
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:

> Fred <testing@testing1212mouse.com> trolled:
>
> > Just about the time I have started to feel comfortable programming in
> > HTML,
>
> So why don't you go and establish comp.programming.html? Surely you would
> get sufficient support for such a group, which is for some odd reason
> nonexistent.
>
> > this XML comes along.
>
> Yeah, what a shock. We were all surprised when SGML appeared in 1980, and a
> little less surprised when its oversimplification called XML started being
> hyped around 1998.
>
> > Would some kind soul pls post the
> > difference between the two and why one is better than the other.
>
> Oh, that's simple. HTML - XML = HTML, and HTML is better than XML just like
> an apple is better than an orange.
>
> > Thanks!
>
> You're welcome. I hope you enjoyed your 5 minutes of attention.
>
> Followups randomized, as usual for trollingly crossposted "questions".

Gosh! What is going on here to justify such a vicious reply? This
"Fred" a known devil?

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dorayme

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