From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:56:26 -0500 From: quanstro@quanstro.net To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Abaco In-Reply-To: <310e5fece6b8b32cfcc0c4539f700620@terzarima.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7c44c2e8-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i've talked and worked with some of them in the distant past. the ones i knew were very excited about what they are doing and conviced they were blazing a new trail. you tend to get the "but this one goes to eleven" arguments. as in "this way is simplier". retort: "but this works with our xml parser." i even worked with (against?) a text search engine that returned byte-offsets in sgml. the good news was there were no endian considerations. the bad news was everything else. - erik On Mon Jul 10 04:34:55 CDT 2006, forsyth@terzarima.net wrote: > > I understand not being able to stop yourself when something is fun, > > but when it is simply drudgery... what then? > > i don't understand it either. each time i implement one small chunk of that > big set of angular, irregular syntax, i end up feeling fairly miserable, > with no feeling of accomplishment. the WS-* specifications are amazing: > they present whole pages full of xml, often to do something trivial (eg, establish > or extend a lease). miserable. > > still, you're stuck having to deal with more than a little of it if > you're doing a `browser' (which makes it sound bucolic!). >