<html><head></head><body>Aspermypriorspacelesspost,imscrewed.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On April 28, 2018 8:44:49 PM EDT, Pete Hardie via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Adding fuel to the fire....<a href="https://developers.slashdot.org/story/17/06/15/1431253/developers-who-use-spaces-make-more-money-than-those-who-use-tabs">https://developers.slashdot.org/story/17/06/15/1431253/developers-who-use-spaces-make-more-money-than-those-who-use-tabs</a><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 7:36 PM Steve Litt via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 15:25:44 -0400<br>
Phil Turmel via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 04/28/2018 06:31 AM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:<br>
> > On 04/28/2018 02:59 AM, Steve Litt via Ale wrote: <br>
> <br>
> >> This is just one of the reasons I like Python so much. <br>
> > <br>
> > This is one of the reasons I dislike python. ;)<br>
> > Give me ; anyday. <br>
> <br>
> I don't know how to describe how I feel about all of this, as<br>
> I like both C and python. However, they're both a delight<br>
> compared to anything based on XML.<br>
<br>
My Stylz authoring environment uses a very typist friendly native<br>
format, but my pre-converter immediately translates it to XML. Once<br>
something is in XML format, if you have an XML parser, you can have<br>
your way with it. Anything you want to do, if you have a decent<br>
parserer you can do it: You have begin tags, end tags, text, tails,<br>
attribs: XML is the ultimate intermediate format. You can quickly find<br>
whatever you need, and there are built in single generation and full<br>
tree walkers.<br>
<br>
But XML as something a user interfaces in an editor: Bwaaaaa haaaaa<br>
haaaa haaa ha, you gotta be kidding me. You're right: C and Python are<br>
delightful compared to that (I think they're both pretty delightful<br>
anyway, but ...)<br>
<br>
XML is wonderful for machines, but a human being should never need to<br>
confront XML.<br>
<br>
SteveT<br>
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