My point was that it is not an unreasonable thing to have some sort of #include directive in a data format, and certainly not in a markup language.
The problem here was the same as in the rest of the software industry: programmers are far from ‘engineers’ in their desire to understand their tools, use the right tools and build bug-free code. Instead, most people hack for fun with tools they hardly understand and then somehow manage to complain if they shoot off their feet while doing so.
Hacking for fun and shooting off extremities is of course perfectly fine, but the blame for the latter lies in the programmer (and possibly their education), not the tools.
The problem here was the same as in the rest of the software industry: programmers are far from ‘engineers’ in their desire to understand their tools, use the right tools and build bug-free code. Instead, most people hack for fun with tools they hardly understand and then somehow manage to complain if they shoot off their feet while doing so.
Hacking for fun and shooting off extremities is of course perfectly fine, but the blame for the latter lies in the programmer (and possibly their education), not the tools.