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That reminds me of that saying I heard about XML:

"Some people have a problem and think they can solve it with XML. Then they have two problems."



Sidenote: that's actually a reference to a usenet post from 1997 by Jamie Zawinsk, a Netscape engineer and the driving force behind the open-sourcing of the Mozilla codebase. In the original, Zawinski was talking about regex:

> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

Zawinski's post, in turn was a reference to a 1988 sigfile from John Myers, quoting D. Tilbrook:

> Whenever faced with a problem, some people say "Let's use AWK." Now, they have two problems.

You can find a detailed history here:

http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247




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