Bug for bug compatibility
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| 1900 is no leapyear. But what if once a programmer did a premature
| implementation and some users started to rely on the bugs. In the year 2007
| these bugs can become features to justify a second international standard for
| Office applications, Open XML.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-31743/bug-for-bug-compatibility
Human readability
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| "This DIS contradicts the goals of XML and best practices. The designers of
| XML knew what they were doing because while we can remember what "c" means in
| this case it becomes problematic when we get hundreds or thousands of these
| shorthand references. .... OOXML has hundreds of these cryptic names."
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-31751/human-readability
Recent:
Windows error messages - written by robots, for robots
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| Seriously, how many people are there in the world who are going to go “Hmmm,
| error code 8024402F … ahhh yes, I know what the problem is”? I can’t, and
| I’ve been neck deep in the Microsoft ecosystem for what is getting to be
| almost two decades.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=934
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