Re: [9fans] XML

[Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>]

You have no heart, programmers have families to feed! This will keep
hundreds of programmers employed for years to come.

uriel

P.S.: And be careful, you might offend the Apple and Sun fanboys in
the audience.

On 5/21/07, Geoffrey Avila <avlg@sdsc.edu> wrote:
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> On a related note:
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> Somebody at Sun decided that the thing Unix needed most of all was a way
> to programmatically manipulate "init" via XML. What's worse is that a
> completely independent team at Apple committed a starkly similar atrocity
> at almost the same time.
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> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/selfheal/smf-quickstart.html
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> http://developer.apple.com/macosx/launchd.html
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> Could someone explain this to me? Why would you do this? How could this
> possibly be a net improvement?
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> -GBA
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> > <9p><request>T</request><requesttype>R</requesttype><fid><number><digit><binary>1</binary><binary>0>/binary>...
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> >
> > well, you get my drift.
> >
> > Shouldn't we move 9p to a standards-based, compliant, XML-based system
> > with first-class enumerated elements in which all pluggable components
> > are Python objects and hence first-class citizens and add a full
> > compiler to enable translation and XML co-processor acceleration?
> >
> > Can I randomly permute the words in the previous sentence? Yes.
> > Is that sentence like stuff I read nowadays? Yes.
> > Is constant gnashing wearing off the enamel on my teeth? Yes, oh yes.
> >
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