From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Experiences of XML parser generators for Ada?
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 17:27:52 +0100
Date: 2004-12-04T17:27:52+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x77pvesuilei.covzsqg740v6$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cosg0b$hkq$2@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 14:01:47 +0000 (UTC), Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 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?
Sure, each hole had a tag printed on the card! See:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/cards.html
Deluxe punchers even printed the punched text on the card, redundant but
beloved by suckers! The positions 73..80 were usually reserved for
numbering, very handy if your hands are trembling! (:-))
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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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
2004-12-04 16:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2004-12-06 5:59 ` Daniel W
2004-12-06 14:48 ` Marc A. Criley
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2004-12-03 23:18 ` Robert C. Leif
2004-12-07 19:41 ` Björn Persson
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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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