during research on xml i was falling over brians quote again "xml is like diet cobol". it sounds good, but still wondering what it means and how i can use this next week at the conference. i mean i don´t know enough about cobol nor diets ...

the "fresh from y2k. what´s next for cobol" helps me out on cobol. also it has a quote on "computer diet" in it:

Hopper, a mathematician herself, under- stood the secret world of symbols and was undaunted by naysayers who insisted sym- bols were the only diet of computers.

but ¿?¿

in general i didn´t know that there are a lot of articles on different computer diets around, beside of programs for human who do that stuff. after a diet a computer gets dumb. punto (fat versus thin)