Re: Why XML is a bad idea[longish] (was Re: [abcusers] draft for V:)

[Richard Robinson]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, John Chambers wrote:

> Still, I'd estimate that there are maybe 20K truly distinct ABC tunes
> on the web that my search program has found, on about 125 machines.
> 
> I've found a couple dozen new sites in the past month or so.  Most of
> them  are  small, but there was one site with over 6000 tunes (mostly
> copied from other sites, so this site qualifies as a  "mirror"  site,
> and contributed very few new titles.) I'd bet that there are a lot of
> other small ABC sites out  there,  and  there's  a  small  chance  of
> another  big  one.   If  you know of any obscure small abc sites, you
> might go to my finder:
>    http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/findtune.html
> Type in the host name, and it'll give you a list  of  all  the  known
> tunes on that host.  If it's not found, send me the URL.

Thanks for that, John. Yeah, all the doubts, all the arguments, aside,
something is happening here.


> Is this feasible with any other musical formats?

Yeah. You grab an instrument, go down the local pub, meet up with some
other players, and play your tunes at them and let them do the same to
you; and pretty soon they're playing some of your tunes, and you're
playing some of theirs. If only in self-defence. 

:-))


-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem


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