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.

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