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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,cc10950bd98eb465,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert C. Leif" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Microsoft & Ada (and also a remark on DTDs prohibiting Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 06:37:36 -0700 Organization: Newport Instruments Message-ID: Reply-To: rleif@rleif.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1095082667 19964 212.85.156.195 (13 Sep 2004 13:37:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:37:47 +0000 (UTC) To: Return-Path: X-Authenticated-User: rleif.rleif.com X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 Thread-Index: AcSZlrqb4P1GGEooTLyJ8+NjYmq6aA== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3677 Date: 2004-09-13T06:37:36-07:00 DTDs have a horrible syntax. XML schema can be constructed to have essentially a one-to-one correspondence to Ada. Readability and strong typing are very useful characteristics for software engineering. My latest work on medical data, CytometryML, can be found at www.newportinstruments.com. Most of the data types are NOT numeric. In fact, the major part of the numeric data is kept in separate files, which are written in Ada. My Ada code employs the same data-types and names as the XML schema. Bob Leif Message: 1 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:01:14 +0000 (UTC) From: Georg Bauhaus Subject: Re: Microsoft & Ada (and also a remark on DTDs prohibiting economic success) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Message-ID: Robert C. Leif wrote: : Any one of the present competitors : could have stopped Microsoft, if they made reliable well engineered : products. Instead the competitors use Java and XML DTDs. When the economy : functions correctly, stupid business men go broke. I think it's not very smart to judge XML DTDs by narrowing one's view down to records numeric medical data. 8-) Likewise, rockstable proven software without much need to manually debug data streams can profit from the use of a scheme like ASN.1. -- Georg