XML overuse? (was Re: Python to XML to Python conversion)

[Cameron Laird]

In article <aglv0h$u57$1 at slb7.atl.mindspring.net>,
Matt Gerrans <mgerrans at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> XML combines all the inefficiency of text-based formats with most of the
>> unreadability of binary formats :-)
>
>Maybe it was surreptitiously introduced by a consortium of router and disk
>drive manufacturers, to ensure increasing sales of hardware, by its
>voracious appetite for bandwidth and disk space.  ;-)
>
>

CORBA people *know* this is true.
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