Re: "It doesn't matter if you're a good programmer, it's the syntax that matters"

"Phlip" <phlipcpp@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Rainer Weikusat wrote:
I suspect that you misunderstand me on purpose. XML as a data format
has a sufficiently high redundancy that general compression algorithms
can be applied to it with good results. But compressed XML is even
less suitable to efficient processing, because you first have to
decompress it and then you just get all those redundancies back.

And this situation closely resembles inventing a compressed and
non-redundant binary data format.

If it is non-redundant, it cannot possibly be decompressed. But you
are just talking in circles, anyway. I therefore suggest another
hypothesis wrt XML: This is not a data format at all, but either some
weird religion or a powerful drug, and trying to argue with believers/
addicts is as pointless as ever.


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