From: Johann Hibschman <johann@...>
Date: 2001-02-24T06:10:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11408] Re: trial balloon: Ruby desktop?

Stephen White writes:

> On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Steve Tuckner wrote:
>> 1. Store all application data as xml documents. One per object (Since ruby
>> excels at text manipulation)

> Just a brief side-track... but I'm seeing "XML" everywhere and I just don't
> click onto why everyone's talking about it.

Well, the Lisp bigots are sure that it's just an overly-verbose
re-invention of SEXP syntax.  I just might agree.  :-)

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Johann Hibschman                           johann@physics.berkeley.edu