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by im3w1l 2146 days ago
To me it doesn't seem like we are going back and forth. Rather that we are moving forward in a zig-zag pattern. One win is cultural.

In XML-world, you felt this shame when you weren't use schema. You didn't have to, but you really ought to kind of deal. Now it's instead "hey there are schemas if you want that tool". To me that's progress.