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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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!). >
