I neither said that nor implied it.
> As far as the grad student, I believe we were giving them two weeks to
> write an XML parser.
I think it varied -- the main point was that it wasn't 3 months, I think,
and the language has to be straight-forward, simple and self-contained
enough the the grad student _wants_ to do the parser.
> Finally, let's not die on our own sword here. The main goal is to have
> XML be widely accepted. A subgoal of that is to make it relatively
> easy to write an XML parser, but it still has to be worthwhile to
> write that parser in the first place, or we've lost the war.
Yes, that's true, I agree.
Lee