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Re: [SM-Discuss] init woes

From: Tony Smith <tony AT smee.org>
To: Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
Cc: Seth Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>, Robert Helgesson <rycee AT home.se>, sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] init woes
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:34:43 -0000

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 19:36, Paul Mahon wrote:
> Me, troll? Everyone know I don't do that ;)

:-)

> No, I wasn't serious. I have a strong aversion to Java, engrained more
> deeply every time I work on it.
> I also thing XML is a mistake in almost all uses. It's supposed to be a
> flexible human readable markup language. That means that it has
> redundancy. For it to be used for computers to talk to tother computers
> is inefficient. Because it's also meant to be computer parsable, it has
> a lot of extra syntax that people don't need. That means that it's
> tiresome for people to write. Making it annoying for people to use and
> inefficient for computers. Hmm....
>
> I prefer Ruby over Python as well, but I haven't done much in either.

Sounds like we're in violent agreement ;-) Enjoy the weekend folks!

Tony
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Tony Smith <tony AT smee.org>

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