A Plea for Schemas

[David Megginson]

Paul Prescod <paul at prescod.net> writes:

> Tim Bray wrote:
> > 
> > Note "machine-readable" in the sentence above.  At this point in history,
> > it's the human-readable part of schemas that seem to me to have the
> > biggest payoffs, because that's what the programmers read before they
> > write the code that actually does something useful. -Tim
> 
> Any programmer that reads the prose but doesn't read the schema is bound
> to make many avoidable assumptions and mistakes.

Et vice-versa.  The only reason that formal languages are less
ambiguous than natural ones is that they're not capable of saying much
in the first place.


All the best,


David

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David Megginson                 david at megginson.com
           http://www.megginson.com/

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