From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] xml
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:06:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3633bacf2efc9da1b911893b4029531b@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTiklItp0qWoXrpGDwbq7-KJSYu7f8g6vy0W3jjzQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon Jun 28 14:56:12 EDT 2010, robpike@gmail.com wrote:
> I should add that Russ's post is on point, Wadler's slightly off. I
> would extend it as "The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves
> is not hard, it does not solve the problem well, and anyway it's not
> the problem people think it solves."
yet in that it does something, it does so vigorously and verbosly
and does so less vexatiously than asn.1, which does solve the
problem xml purports to solve.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-28 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-28 16:19 hugo rivera
2010-06-28 16:55 ` Russ Cox
2010-06-28 17:06 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-06-28 18:26 ` Rob Pike
2010-06-28 18:31 ` David Leimbach
2010-06-28 18:40 ` Rob Pike
2010-06-28 19:06 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-06-28 19:14 ` Corey Thomasson
2010-06-30 14:47 ` hugo rivera
2010-06-30 18:25 ` David Leimbach
2010-06-30 18:43 ` ron minnich
2010-06-30 19:54 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2010-06-30 20:04 ` Corey Thomasson
2010-06-30 20:21 ` erik quanstrom
2010-06-30 20:53 ` Wes Kussmaul
2010-07-01 15:06 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-07-01 17:12 ` Russ Cox
2010-07-01 17:43 ` Bakul Shah
2010-07-01 18:37 ` Jorden M
2010-07-01 18:49 ` Rob Pike
2010-07-01 19:33 ` Bakul Shah
2010-07-01 19:34 ` Jorden M
2010-07-02 10:45 ` roger peppe
2010-06-30 20:07 ` LiteStar numnums
2010-06-30 18:59 ` LiteStar numnums
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-03 15:51 Dean Bittner
2007-05-21 16:57 [9fans] XML ron minnich
2007-05-21 17:08 ` W B Hacker
2007-05-21 17:11 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2007-05-21 17:27 ` W B Hacker
2007-05-21 17:37 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-05-22 10:47 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-05-22 11:31 ` erik quanstrom
2007-05-25 15:03 ` David Leimbach
2007-05-25 15:08 ` erik quanstrom
2007-05-25 17:02 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-05-25 17:32 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-05-25 18:15 ` ron minnich
2007-05-25 19:58 ` Uriel
2007-05-25 22:11 ` erik quanstrom
2007-05-25 19:35 ` Steve Simon
2007-05-25 20:36 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-05-25 18:30 ` ozan s. yigit
2007-05-25 20:23 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-05-21 17:33 ` ron minnich
2007-05-21 20:18 ` David Leimbach
2007-05-21 20:25 ` erik quanstrom
2007-05-22 4:13 ` lucio
2007-05-21 18:17 ` erik quanstrom
2007-05-21 18:29 ` Uriel
2007-05-21 18:21 ` Uriel
2007-05-22 1:25 ` LiteStar numnums
2007-05-21 18:26 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-05-21 18:39 ` Jack Johnson
2007-05-21 18:48 ` Uriel
2007-05-21 19:26 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-05-21 20:17 ` David Leimbach
2007-05-21 22:34 ` Steve Simon
2007-05-21 17:32 ` Bakul Shah
2007-05-21 18:23 ` matt
2007-05-21 18:34 ` Geoffrey Avila
2007-05-21 18:41 ` Uriel
2007-05-21 19:27 ` Geoffrey Avila
2007-05-22 22:24 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2007-05-22 4:08 ` lucio
2007-05-21 23:29 ` W B Hacker
2007-05-21 23:34 ` erik quanstrom
2007-05-22 14:02 ` Wes Kussmaul
2007-05-22 14:03 ` erik quanstrom
2007-05-22 14:55 ` Bruce Ellis
2007-05-22 15:05 ` Jack Johnson
2007-05-23 7:12 ` Lluís Batlle
2007-05-23 8:11 ` Lluís Batlle
2007-05-23 8:29 ` lucio
2007-05-22 15:22 ` Wes Kussmaul
2007-05-22 14:53 ` Jack Johnson
2007-05-22 9:53 ` Charles Forsyth
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