in reply to Re: Re: Meditations On HTML In Perl
in thread Meditations On HTML In Perl

Tolerance for that "hey, it's close enough now ain't it" attitude is the reason the web is nowadays comprised by 99% invalid HTML, which requires parsers be written with extra intelligence and makes it hard to programmatically extract information from remote pages. Not every kind of laziness is a virtue.

Makeshifts last the longest.