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Yes, almost all of what I said is opinion, not fact. It is my opinion that any non-portable language is a horrible thing to waste time learning. (especially one that may end up having only one interpreter).

It is my opinion that many /academic/ web crawlers (like google was when it was first developed) will stop parsing old HTML when a significant amount of data is available in XHTML. And yes, I doubt the big indexers will stop parsing old HTML, but you could sure make their lives easier (and all your readers) by using something that meets w3c specs.

I'm just stating my opinion and trying to offer guidance based on my experiences tutoring future Computer Scientists.

I'd also like to add that, in my experience, those that end up coding for windows only are typically much poorer programmers than those that learn standards and cross-platform toolkits. I don't have any scientific studies of this, just my experience.

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