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Bray's Law

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Tim Bray re-phrased the now-classic Metcalfe's Law into something that XML spec writers can appreciate:

 

"The value of a markup language is proportional approximately to the square of the number of different software implementations that can process it."

 

Yeah, yeah I know its an old post but I'm way behind on my blog reading (and posting for that matter!).

 

While I wholeheartedly agree with this assertion (perhaps someday to be known as Bray's Law) I don't necessarily agree with the markup languages he identified as "the big five".

 

Read the whole post here.