[XOM-interest] Exposing XMLHandler

Elliotte Harold erharold at gmail.com
Thu Sep 27 17:52:02 EDT 2007


Thomas Hicks wrote:
> I used to work for Ralph Griswold, the creator of the SNOBOL
> and Icon programming languages. Whenever someone would
> program something particularly unusual or suspect Ralph would
> remark "Well, we're just in the business of selling rope. If they
> want to hang themselves, that's their business."
>          cheers,
>          -tom


All I can say is, XOM's philosophy is very different. Not that you can't 
hang yourself with it, but I want to make it very, very hard to do so.


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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo at metalab.unc.edu
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