[sielskr]

In various conversations on the internet, starting with comp.text.sgml where XML was born in the 1990s, I have seen many signs that someone hopes or expects some of the immense richness in meaning that humans assign to words and other symbols to be carried along by the XML.

In other words, I've seen many special cases of the mistaken belief that programmers of today can do things that only researchers of the future wielding human-level AI will be able to do -- and that just has to cause grief if those hopes and expectations inform IT decisions.