Having trouble finding a word in multiple files

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 05:57:08PM +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 17:44, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
> > was companies, which have large, fast facilities, not individuals on
> > dial-up connections. In the long run it really won't matter, and it was
> > felt better to get it right for the long run even at the expense of
> > difficulty in the short term. XML has been around for 25 years and we
> > still hear people complaining about having to learn "new technology" :-)
> 
> No, it's not that.
> 
> At least in my role, I have to _hand-write_ XML, and although I have
> learned to read and write it to some degree, I think that for such
> purposes it's horribly verbose.
> 
It's just horrible!  Why people think that 'human readable' includes
things like XML I cannot imagine.  It's about the most unreadable
stuff there is, it's far, far worse than just about every programming
language and some of them are pretty bad.  The only less readable
thing I can think of is Regular Expressions and they're not supposed
to be readable.

XML is (maybe) good for machines to read and write but it's hopeless
as a way for *us* to communicate with machines.  There are far easier
(and still machine readable) formats.

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Chris Green