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C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <U35395@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
|
|   (True, he never points it out when the outrageous claims are made,
|   but only when someone like Darrell points out that the claims are,
|   in fact, a bit excessive, and then only in the form "But SGML
|   doesn't *do* that, and doesn't claim to!" -- why Darrell gets flamed
|   for pointing out, in agreement with Erik, that SGML is not a full
|   data modeling language, but the other guy does not get flamed for
|   suggesting that it is, remains one of the deeper mysteries of this
|   newsgroup to me.)

The reason is that I have lots of other things to do, and give priority
to things such as correcting egregious errors.  Brian didn't say it was
a "full data modeling language", as Darrell interpreted him, because
Brian's article was considerably less scholarly than Darrell's inter-
pretation of it was.  I didn't find Brian's statements erroneous in the
context they were written, but Darrell has made a hell of a lot of noise
about it in quite a different context.  _That_ needed corrective action,
especially when he criticizes SGML for being bad at something it didn't
even try doing, and which he thinks that Brian said it was good at.
Brian's article was an editorial, and I've been around newspapers for
too long to consider anything said in editorials to be remotely on par
with textbooks and scholarly papers.  I frankly don't understand how
anybody could confuse the two, but that's not a very relevant concern,
is it?

|   I now pause to don my asbestos suit and await the inevitable replies ...

Nothing worth flaming you for in that article, Michael.

I'll reply to more of the article when I get the time.  I have a busy
week.  Sorry for the response time or the selective replies if it annoys
you.

Best regards,
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