From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10612291913i12b21049u6cf613c349d85245@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:13:24 -0700 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] /Library/LauchAgents/9pfs.plist In-Reply-To: <4595D696.1050300@parvat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3851d0a8471f122e12c32d723a45c464@terzarima.net> <599f06db0612210205r6400ebfaxc29901305ef518b7@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10612210658v1076ca65pa5104d7aaf89c794@mail.gmail.com> <4595D696.1050300@parvat.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: fbf199c6-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 12/29/06, Martin Atkins wrote: > Colinux is the first project I know of that has abandoned XML > config files because they were too unreadable and difficult > for users to maintain. yes, but earlier, ganglia dumped xml in favor of s-expressions. Also, a little birdie in xensource told us they declined to go with xml and stuck with sexpressions. People are beginning to realize just how much XML sucks as a universal description language. Too late in some cases, but we can hope. It is quite pathetic that people all jumped on the XML bandwagon, and then we have binary XML (!) and XML co-processors (!!) and nobody realizes that there's something wrong with this picture (!!!). ron