On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietr...@mac.com> wrote:
> On Jun 30, 2010, at 2:43 PM, ron minnich wrote:
>
> as long as you don't care about the (observed) 100:1 ratio of XML glop
> to data in, e.g., the Python XMLRPC stuff, it's great. Yep, I observed
> that ratio when Xen made the cut to XML-RPC: 3000 bytes of RPC to send
> 30 bytes of data. It's impressive: gigE gets reduced to 10 Mb ethernet
> in no time; XML-RPC turns the network clock back by 20 years.
>
>
> A friend on AIM who I showed this quote to suggested XML should drop named
> close tags as a solution: <tag>stuff</>
>
>
Could just go back to SGML:
<tag/stuff/
> "C and Ratfor programmers find BEGIN and END bulky compared to { and }." -
> bwk
>
>
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Q: How many Prolog programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: No.
-- Ovid
"By cosmic rule, as day yields night, so winter summer, war peace, plenty
famine. All things change. Air penetrates the lump of myrrh, until the
joining bodies die and rise again in smoke called incense."
"Men do not know how that which is drawn in different directions
harmonises with itself. The harmonious structure of the world depends upon
opposite tension like that of the bow and the lyre."
"This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god
or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire,
kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures"
-- Heraclitus
