Sam Ruby wrote:
> Geir Magnusson wrote:
>
>> I am very pro XML myself. I think think that since the API takes care
>> of all details though, putting everything behind a Repository class, it
>> could be implemented via gerbils...
>
>
> I'd like to see an instance proof of that myself.
>
> Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way
> around.[1]
>
> Fred Brooks, the Mythical Man Month, as quoted by Eric Raymond [1]:
>
> Brooks, Chapter 9: ``Show me your [code] and conceal your [data
> structures], and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your [data
> structures], and I won't usually need your [code]; it'll be obvious.''
>
> - Sam Ruby
>
> [1]
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/x188.html
I can agree with this. AntGump and Gump rely on the same data
presentation to do the work. This works very well. Ultimately, both
will move toward and merge with the Alexandria data, and then we will
have three systems working on the same data structures. There is
definite utility in a common data structure.
Scott
