From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] More 'Sam I am'
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:40:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060210144044.GP1620@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b97145453ee85399851dd5284e4d7a9@quintile.net>
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:45:34AM +0000, Steve Simon wrote:
> Sounds to me like an application for these:
>
> Rob Pike, Structural Regular Expressions
> http://netlib.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/doc/87/3-se.ps.gz
That's part of the story, but again, I don't think it's sufficient. Don't
get me wrong; you can do a lot with hierarchical data using SRE's, but it
may not be sufficient. Then again, it may. It all depends on the problem
at hand.
As for Smart People, XML, Corporate IT, and all the rest.... It's really
true that sometimes you're handed things that you have no control over.
Sometimes you're forced to pick the lesser of two evils. Would you pick
XML or ASN.1 if those were the only two options? If the pointy-haired
powers that be are mandating one or the other and, ``neither'' isn't in
the range of possible solutions? Sometimes, it's not worth fighting those
battles....
- Dan C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-10 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-08 4:34 Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-08 5:29 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-08 5:51 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-08 6:14 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-08 6:30 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-08 6:46 ` geoff
2006-02-08 6:50 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-08 17:31 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-08 18:14 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-08 21:28 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-10 9:47 ` Aharon Robbins
2006-02-10 10:45 ` Steve Simon
2006-02-10 14:40 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2006-02-10 22:53 ` lucio
2006-02-23 22:52 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-02-10 11:05 ` uriel
2006-02-10 12:59 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-08 18:20 ` uriel
2006-02-08 19:50 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-08 21:35 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-08 21:43 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-08 22:57 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-02-09 0:03 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-09 0:17 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-02-09 0:26 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-09 0:43 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-02-09 1:11 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-02-09 1:47 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-02-09 1:56 ` Marina Brown
2006-02-09 2:35 ` Federico Benavento
2006-02-09 7:34 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-09 20:11 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-09 16:06 ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-02-09 22:44 ` Marina Brown
2006-02-09 23:06 ` Bakul Shah
2006-02-10 1:37 ` Micah Stetson
2006-02-08 22:58 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-09 13:04 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-02-10 12:28 Aharon Robbins
2006-02-10 12:51 ` Dave Lukes
2006-02-10 14:04 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-02-10 16:15 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-10 17:22 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-02-10 17:41 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-10 18:21 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-02-10 20:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-11 4:36 ` Marina Brown
2006-02-11 4:39 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-11 5:06 ` jmk
2006-02-11 6:52 ` lucio
2006-02-10 15:17 ` uriel
2006-02-10 17:42 ` Bakul Shah
2006-02-10 13:44 quanstro
2006-02-10 13:57 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-10 14:09 quanstro
2006-02-10 14:15 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-10 15:17 ` John Stalker
2006-02-10 15:22 quanstro
2006-02-10 16:49 quanstro
2006-02-11 0:10 quanstro
2006-02-11 3:01 ` jmk
2006-02-11 3:40 quanstro
2006-02-11 4:48 quanstro
2006-02-11 11:22 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-24 0:55 quanstro
2006-02-24 3:46 ` yard-ape
2006-02-24 4:40 ` Lucio De Re
2006-02-25 7:43 ` Serge Gagnon
2006-04-24 18:05 ` Serge Gagnon
2006-02-24 13:36 quanstro
2006-02-24 13:49 ` Anselm R. Garbe
2006-02-24 14:24 ` Gabriel Ivanes
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