Godwin's Law and XML
Today in #perl some n00b was hounding the channel for programming advice. Finally, he started spewing XML solutions at us.
Disclaimer: XML is great for stuff. XML works for a lot of things. I use it every day.
XML is the
Godwin's Law of programming discussions.
Once you bring it up, you have lost our attention and any future points you bring up are wasted. The conversation is at an end, and it can only go downhill from there.
The Real Programmers amongst you know exactly what I mean.
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