Am Sonntag, 13. November 2005 20:29 schrieb Sven Panne: > [...] > As I'm guilty of kicking out the old SGML stuff and introducing DocBook > XML, I'd like to add two remarks: > > * DocBook XML can be transformed into a very rich collection of output > formats: XHTML, HTML Help, DVI, PS, PDF, FO, plain text, etc. etc.
Very right. > * But what's more important: Compared to the more exotic markup mechanisms > proposed, it is well-known and extremely well documented. There are tons of > web sites, books, articles, etc. etc. about DocBook XML. Proposing more > arcane technologies will drastically reduce the amount of people actually > contributing to an Open Source project, a fact which is easily overlooked. > (On a related note, this is one of my major concerns about the introduction > of darcs, but I'll be happy if I'm proven wrong...) So then, let's stop using Haskell. :-) Honestly, caring too much about how much a certain "technology" is known and used will kill innovation. If something new is really better than what's already there then I want to consider its adoption. Compatibilty, support and the like is also important but it shouldn't be overrated. I don't like it when creativity and true innovation is hindered too much by pragmatic arguments. Nevertheless, I could imagine that DocBook XML does a better job for the GHC documentation than the other things proposed. > Cheers, > S. Best wishes, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
