From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,47bc849aad30d586 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-31 09:01:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed Date: 31 May 2002 09:01:53 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0205310801.7450b475@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1022860913 19717 127.0.0.1 (31 May 2002 16:01:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 May 2002 16:01:53 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25093 Date: 2002-05-31T16:01:53+00:00 List-Id: "Robert C. Leif" wrote in message news:... > XML has two advantages over Ada. 1) More users and 2) eventually more > tools. It has the disadvantage, that except for XSL Fo, XML lacks Those are both just theory. I'd like to see numbers on 1, and 2 is a prediction, which could be no better than my World Cup predictions. :-) What we *do* know is right now. Right now, anyone who is going to use this is going to already be using Ada, and there are *far* less tools for dealing with XML files than there are for dealing with CSV files. (Can you tell I'm not an XML convert? :-) ) -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html