Bill, you hit a nail pretty squarely on the head. I believe this decades long
fetish with MARC has to go. It was designed to efficiently store data on
magtapes and doesn't make any sense in today's world. It's a huge millstone
around the neck of Libraryland and it keeps them stuck in that
What's wrong with the library world developing its own domain language?
EVERYTHING!!!
We're already in a world of pain because we have our own data formats and
ways of dealing with them, all of which have basically stood idle while 30
years of advances computer science and information
He's Pro-Django
(sung to the tune of Mr. Bojangles and with
abject apologies to Jerry Jeff Walker)
I knew a man pro-Django and he proselytized
For DRY;
It's plugable, reusable, for rapid dev,
Give it a try.
He praised Python, he praised Python,
Which it's written in.
Hooray!
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Doran, Michael D do...@uta.edu wrote:
He's Pro-Django
(sung to the tune of Mr. Bojangles and with
abject apologies to Jerry Jeff Walker)
I knew a man pro-Django and he proselytized
For DRY;
It's plugable, reusable, for rapid dev,
Bravo!! Well done! I guess I'm not the only one whose mind instantly played
that song in his head when first reading about Django.
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