On 09/04/13 04:55, Axel Castellane wrote:
Sorry Tony, but I believe that RePEc (the organization that uses ReDIF
files) does not understand so much about the consistency of file
extensions and everything related to the Internet. It is not its area of
expertise. Its main focus is economics. Formatted text and Internet are
just convenient tools for classifying the papers, authors, etc. and
doing some statistics. I think that at the time they started their
service, they did not even know that another type of files had a .rdf
extension... Most probably, they did not even know about W3C.
!!!
And from what I read in that HTML page, it seemed to me that to them,
the existence of non-Windows operating systems is some quaint feature of
out-of the way places… They know about it, but only in passing… Or maybe
I am overgeneralizing.
By the way, RePEc is the largest database of working papers of
economics. It also cross-registers references about most of the journals
of economic literature. It is referenced on Google Scholar. It publishes
a ranking of authors which is used a lot in the job market of
researchers in economics. In a word, it is quite big. To browse the
statistics of any paper, article, author or institution, go on
http://ideas.repec.org/. It is not really "confidential". I would say it
is more like a niche, which does not attract so many wikipedia
contributors, hence its low visibility on Internet, I guess.
OK, let's call it a niche; it might be of interest to my nephew who has,
IIUC, an economy degree, but to me, who studied math, worked at various
times as a computer programmer (in COBOL and assembly language), a
teacher (math/physics, to children ages 12 to 15) or a translator
(English and Dutch into French), they could just as well be on another
planet.
I think the new filetype.vim is really highly unlikely to catch anything
else than a ReDIF file, so it is not a big deal that it uses a wrong
file extension.
Good. IIUC, with the new filetype.vim, *.rdf files which look like XML
will be detected as filetype=xml, those which have a redif header will
be detected as filetype=redif, and if a file comes about which is
neither, its filetype won't be set unless it fits some other filetype's
criteria.
Finally, I think that the file extension cannot be changed, because the
script that reads ReDIF files silently ignores all other files, and I
have heard that the person who programmed it (in Perl...) some time ago
is not maintaining it anymore...
Oh, I'm sure there still exist some working programmers with a knowledge
of Perl, the problem would be what to decide and how to implement it,
without throwing wrenches this way and that into all the wheels of the
RePEc libraries. I suppose we will have to leave it unchanged, with name
collision and all, at least for the time being.
Best regards,
Tony.
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