[Python-Dev] #pragmas in Python source code

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Ping wrote:
> > > But you're right, i've never heard of another language that can handle
> > > configurable encodings right in the source code.
> 
> XML?

Don't get me started.  XML is not a language.  It's a serialization
format for trees (isomorphic to s-expressions, but five times more
verbose).  It has no semantics.  Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise
is probably a marketing drone or has been brainwashed by the buzzword
brigade.


-- ?!ng