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"Vocabulary proliferation is one of the biggest XML annoyances around. If you're like me, your brain can hold three, maybe four markup languages at a time."
Why would this be? Is there a limitation on the number of programming languages? I would suppose there might be a basic limit of the number of tasks of a similar nature that a human can relate to and this format brainshare is a case of that, must be some studies somewhere. Is it hold three, four markup languages without needing to look up the exact meaning of a tag, or not needing such tools as autocompletion in editors to remind one of the tags available here?
I actually think that comparing markup languages at this level is probably not worthwhile, I think that XSL-FO and RSS are of such very different types of languages that the ability to know one does not significantly affect the ability to know another.
(I actually posted this to Danny's blog first)
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