From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13654 invoked by uid 1002); 4 May 2003 16:50:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 11692 invoked from network); 4 May 2003 16:50:38 -0000 Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 18:49:28 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Lindstr=F6m?= In-reply-to: <1052064144.1708.3.camel@cyr.kaylix.net> To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mail-followup-to: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-id: <20030504164928.GN5148@lucien.dreaming> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-PGP-Key: http://hem.fyristorg.com/bkhl/pubkey.asc References: <1052064144.1708.3.camel@cyr.kaylix.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Init replacement X-Archives-Salt: f6525cef-d74c-4107-8433-285fbad45845 X-Archives-Hash: f7868a3e2c29386ef691bb25d943d5bc Wesley Leggette [20030504 18:02]: > I'll definitly help out writing scripts. Your system is so much eas= ier > to read than sysvinit. And it's a lot easier to write for. It's mor= e > english like. And, hey, if you can't write for XML, I don't know WH= AT > you've been doing all these years. Everybody should know HTML, and > XML's syntax is the exact same. There's only about five new words t= o > learn to get your XML down pat. I don't understand why people are > being such a stick in the mud about all this. Well, I am admittedly sliding away from the topic, but I feel like getting this off my chest. SGML (and thus HTML) was never originally intended to be human readable/hackable. The same goes for XML. It is designed to be easily _parsed_, not easily _read_. This makes it unfitting for programming or configuration tasks in a U= N*X environment, where you want to be able to do all configuration tasks with your editor. So it's not so much about not knowing XML, but about knowing when it = is appropriate to use and when it is not. --=20 Bj=F6rn Lindstr=F6m Home page: http://hem.fyristorg.com/bkhl/ Blog: http://bkhl.livejournal.com/ Elektrubadur demo: http://hem.fyristorg.com/bkhl/elektrubadur/ -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list