On 10/04/2013 01:23 AM, James A. Donald wrote:
On 2013-10-04 09:33, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
The design of WSDL and SOAP is entirely due to the need to impedance match COM
to HTTP.
That is fairly horrifying, as COM was designed for a single threaded
environment, and becomes and
On Oct 3, 2013, at 7:33 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.com wrote:
XML was not intended to be easy to read, it was designed to be less painful
to work with than SGML, that is all
More to the point, it was designed to be a *markup* format. The markup is
metadata describing various
On 2013-10-04 09:33, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
The design of WSDL and SOAP is entirely due to the need to impedance
match COM to HTTP.
That is fairly horrifying, as COM was designed for a single threaded
environment, and becomes and incomprehensible and extraordinarily
inefficient security
On 3/10/13 00:37 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Jerry Leichter wrote:
Always keep in mind - when you argue for easy readability - that one
of COBOL's design goals was for programs to be readable and
understandable by non-programmers.
Managers, in particular.
SQL, too, had
On Thu, 3 Oct 2013, Peter Gutmann wrote:
For those not familiar with TL1, supposed to be readable here means
encoded in ASCII rather than binary. It's about as readable as
EDIFACT and HL7.
In a previous life I had to read, understand, and debug EDIFACT (it was
OpenLDAP, as I recall). It
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:19 AM, ianG i...@iang.org wrote:
On 3/10/13 00:37 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Jerry Leichter wrote:
Always keep in mind - when you argue for easy readability - that one
of COBOL's design goals was for programs to be readable and
understandable by
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Jerry Leichter wrote:
Always keep in mind - when you argue for easy readability - that one
of COBOL's design goals was for programs to be readable and
understandable by non-programmers.
Managers, in particular.
-- Dave
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