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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Subject: Re: Experiences of XML parser generators for Ada?
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 14:01:47 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2004-12-04T14:01:47+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cosg0b$hkq$2@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bk4wndvrxe16$.1mmj78jrlyqfp$.dlg@40tude.net

Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
: On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 00:33:22 +0100, Adrien Plisson wrote:
: 
:> so here comes my advice: think twice before using xml.
:> xml is a very powerful tool for DYNAMICALLY STRUCTURED HUMAN READABLE 
:> TEXT.
: 
: Human readable? I have an impression that punched cards were more readable!

Punch cards hardly tell you what the holes mean?


: XML reminds me one implementation of Algol 60, in which all keyword were
: upper case put in quotes, e.g. 'BEGIN'. Though, even that was more readable
: than XML.

This is a misunderstanding of what readibility means here.
Please see my other reply in this thread.

-- Georg



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-04 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-02 21:04 Experiences of XML parser generators for Ada? Daniel W
2004-12-02 22:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-12-03  8:57 ` Martin Krischik
2004-12-03  9:16   ` Adrien Plisson
2004-12-03 20:42     ` Daniel W
2004-12-03 23:33       ` Adrien Plisson
2004-12-04  8:05         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-12-04 11:40           ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-12-04 13:14             ` Martin Krischik
2004-12-05 16:27               ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-12-05 17:58                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-12-04 13:59             ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-12-05  8:47               ` Martin Krischik
2004-12-06 11:18                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-12-06 18:12                 ` Pascal Obry
2004-12-13 20:34                   ` Florian Weimer
2004-12-05  1:50             ` David Botton
2004-12-04 14:01           ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2004-12-04 16:27             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-12-06  5:59         ` Daniel W
2004-12-06 14:48         ` Marc A. Criley
     [not found] <20041203110026.6F40B4C408A@lovelace.ada-france.org>
2004-12-03 23:18 ` Robert C. Leif
2004-12-07 19:41   ` Björn Persson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-04 20:37 Robert C. Leif
2004-12-04 22:53 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-12-08 23:37   ` Lionel Draghi
2004-12-09 12:29     ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-12-09 21:04       ` Lionel Draghi
2004-12-09 21:09     ` Lionel Draghi
2004-12-10 22:09     ` Simon Wright
2004-12-11  0:02       ` Lionel Draghi
2004-12-11  9:03         ` Pascal Obry
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