[Gllug] Open Source for charities?

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Mon May 8 10:25:48 UTC 2006


On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 09:50:20PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> On Fri, 05 May 2006, will at willj.net prattled cheerily:
> > Ryland, Peter wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 16:46 +0100, t.clarke wrote:
> >>> I bet the XML document contains 5 million bytes of tags and a few hundred of
> >>> actual data    !haha
> >> I love the XML documents that go something like this:
> >> <input name="parameter">
> >>   <tag name="name" value="foo" />
> >>   <tag name="value" value="bar" />
> >> </input>
> > 
> > That is truly horrible...
> 
> Write Struts and web services stuff, and you'll see a *lot* of these
> little nightmares.

Yes ... Those who don't understand Domain Specific Languages are
doomed to reinvent them, poorly.

Rich.

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