• self@awful.systems
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    18 days ago

    I’ve always seen XML as much more of a tech executive thing — here’s the language that’ll run your entire business but is also incredibly easy to create proprietary semantics with, ensuring you can’t be ousted without taking the company down with you! it looks like absolute shit and it’s painful to type! buy in now!

    • froztbyte@awful.systems
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      18 days ago

      I know someone who was hired (around turn of the century) because they knew how to xml with a certain kind of then-important big systems api

      the stories I’ve heard from there are hilarious

      but is also incredibly ease to create proprietary semantics with

      christ the shit I’ve seen with network vendors…. shibboleth NETCONF/YANG. advance warning; abyss grade 6+

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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      18 days ago

      XML works fine for what it is, it’s just a bit verbose. Not sure it’d be my first choice for a new thing, but it’s not a toxic waste dump if you’re allowed to do it properly.