On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Andrew Errington > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, August 8, 2008 13:23, Jim Cheetham wrote: > >> You want to transform an XML document, so you should use XML tools ... > > > > And we wonder why software these days is so bloated... > > Learning a programming language is easy. > Learning the libraries/tools available for it is difficult. > Realising when you are re-inventing a wheel that's already been > designed by a subject-matter expert is even harder. > > -jim > ...and having a piece of code you wrote become part of a major distro: priceless.
