Re: [xml-dev] The triples datamodel -- was Re: [xml-dev] Semantic Web permathread, iteration n+1

On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 00:26, Bob Foster wrote:
> Michael Kay wrote:
>  >>IMHO, XML's biggest mistake was to make validation optional.
>  >
>  > I sense a general law here. For every successful technology T, T's 
> biggest
>  > mistake was the feature that made T successful.
>  >
>  > For example, Java's biggest mistake was trying to make the language
>  > compatible with C.
> 
> And XSLT's biggest mistake was XML syntax?
> 
You two are definitely on to something. :-)

Perl's biggest mistake was probably integrating regex syntax in the
language.


/Henrik