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From: Mark Bainter <mark-gt@cymry.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Init replacement
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 11:16:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030508161616.GA30451@firinn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1052092502.7913.16.camel@cyr.kaylix.net>

Wesley Leggette [wleggette@gate.net] wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 14:34, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > Well obviously that worked well then, given the non-triviality of any
> > complete SGML parser.
> > 
> > I've got this feeling, shared by others I think, that XML is a hammer and
> > everyone's looking for nail-like objects.
> 
> I think it doesn't really matter if people are trying to use XML for a
> lot of different things because they're only doing so because they like
> XML for whatever reason. I see the point about using an appropriate
> language for the appropriate task, but I do think I would like it easier
> if I could learn one language (or really syntax, since the keywords will
> be different) and use it for a lot of different purposes.

Hrm....learn a language or syntax that you can use for a lot of different
purposes?  I think that would be shell scripting.

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-08 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-02 20:34 [gentoo-dev] Init replacement Joshua Brindle
2003-05-02 21:36 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-05-02 21:50 ` George Shapovalov
2003-05-03  9:14   ` Wouter van Kleunen
2003-05-04 16:02     ` Wesley Leggette
2003-05-04 16:49       ` [gentoo-dev] " Björn Lindström
2003-05-04 19:34         ` Joseph Carter
2003-05-04 23:55           ` Wesley Leggette
2003-05-08 16:16             ` Mark Bainter [this message]
2003-05-05 11:06           ` Terje Kvernes
2003-05-04 20:25         ` Evan Powers
2003-05-04 23:58           ` Wesley Leggette
2003-05-05  5:23       ` [gentoo-dev] " C. Brewer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-02  9:34 Wouter van Kleunen
2003-05-04 12:39 ` [gentoo-dev] " Robert Wittams
2003-05-05 10:20 ` A.Waschbuesch

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