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+All software sucks
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+
+"*And folks, let's be honest. Sturgeon was an optimist. Way more than 90% of code is crap.*" -- Al viro
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+"*There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.*" -- C.A.R. Hoare, The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture
+
+"*One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.*" -- Ken Thompson
+
+"*..At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I
+soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be
+implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a
+mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million
+dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way -and
+that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost
+simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.*" -- C.A.R. Hoare
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+XML Sucks
+=========
+
+"*The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well."* -- Phil Wadler, POPL 2003
+
+
+For now see [xmlsucks.org](http://www.xmlsucks.org).
+
+Alternatives
+------------
+
+* Simple custom text formats
+* sexprs
+* csv
+* json
+* ndb-like
+
+Quotes
+------
+
+"*Most xml i've seen makes me think i'm dyslexic.  it also looks constipated,
+and two health problems in one standard is just too much.*" -- Charles Forsyth on 9fans
+
+Alexander Viro on linux-kernel mailing list:
+
+	> > Or even XML. Ouch! No need to throw things at me!
+	>
+	> It seems they would be thrown! XML in kernel is too much. OpenOffice and
+
+	They won't be thrown.  They will be slowly driven under the nails, so that
+	victim could experience the joy equal to that of dealing with XML.
+