Posted by Martin Edwards on 05/21/06 00:44

dorayme wrote:
> 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?
>
Some people just do that. It is the temptation of anonymity.

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