On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 12:20 PM, David Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
Or having a piece of instructional prose you wrote becoming very widely used: ditto. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
