Greg Lindahl
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:00:31 -0700
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 06:34:50PM -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote: > So yeah, XML isn't a magic bullet. I think half of the anger people > seem to feel for it is because they think it somehow should be. I'm only upset by XML boosters who are so positive about it. You fall into this category; when I began picking nits you admitted that XML has flaws, but until that point, you were preaching its benefits with no mention of its numerous flaws. > That's not the point -- the point is that they are easy > to PARSE so one can easily write and debug a PARSER (or encoder) So that's why XML parsers are so big and expensive, because it's "easy". >> Looks like unreadable crap to me. If this is a good example, it >> doesn't lend much of a positive spin to your rant. > > Oh, please. Unreadable crap? Dude, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or in this case, in the eye of the proud pappa. Your baby is ugly. Your argument of "this is prettier than /proc" is a very weak one. If one person designed /proc it would probably be prettier than your XML. I'll take Don's beostat format sight-unseen over your XML. -- greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf