From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] vga hell
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 09:00:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47ac164ad553d8dd4771944f819e58ac@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f2cd3bbea7cae59648120b22d074dc05@collyer.net>
>>/lib/vgadb converted to xml via perl, say
it would need to be a perl implementation of xslt to meet w3c stundards (a `stundard'
is a self-declared standard that makes you feel stunned esp. if it hits you), but i digress:
i think it's wrong to include lisp in that `hellish' set, with vga, perl and xml,
at least in the sense of the underlying lisp `core'.
i admit the Common Lisp book has the disadvantage that at 50 pounds the price is also the weight,
but that's the usual standards hell, not restricted to lisp. if the spiders had used s-expressions
for structured data, and lisp for portable transformation, any resulting
standards mess might have been easier to circumnavigate, or perhaps avoid.
w3c also wouldn't have ended up in an xml-binary tangle (because there's a standard transport
encoding for s-expressions that encompasses binary as ... binary; such magic!)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-28 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-28 3:59 boyd, rounin
2004-08-28 4:08 ` geoff
2004-08-28 4:10 ` boyd, rounin
2004-08-28 8:00 ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2004-08-28 8:09 ` geoff
2004-08-28 8:59 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-08-29 13:52 ` dvd
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