-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Michael
Great post and I respect your view. It's quite an achievement if you still manage today with only an ASCII terminal. I do share some of your points. Almost everything I write for example is made in vi and Latex, with tabular data entered in Oleo. I do however run a X session - it's hard to deny that graphical user interfaces don't have large benefits for some applications. Design is one example - from electronics to graphics and so on. However a lot of people today when they have a problem first go to a computer and don't even think about using a piece of paper. "When in doubt, use less technology". I would like to add that I see the same trend in electronics. Students are taught that you don't need to know much about details for example about amplifier design. You just pick the right chip from the shelf. Analog electronics itself appears to be dying. Adding microcontrollers is advocated as the right answer to all problems. A local magazine for example publishes simple DIY electronics projects - for a couple of years now they all include PIC processors, even for tasks like blinking lights where two transistors would accomplish the same task. However I fail to see why XML format itself is problematic. It is often abused, but it has its proper uses - "The art of Unix programming" has a nice comparison between file formats and when the use of XML is warranted. On the other hand I think that switching from the current PCB format to an XML-based one would create much more problems than it would solve. Oh, and I don't see why you couldn't store an XML file on punched tape in the same way as any other ASCII file. Best regards Tomaz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF+SZ6sAlAlRhL9q8RAkdWAJ9kss5mtbhIu0dZKIF1A5HgHv9D0QCcCLnI 2blPXsYrExdjddyPBeOUPvA= =gVQ0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
