[#10209] Market for XML Web stuff — Matt Sergeant <matt@...>

I'm trying to get a handle on what the size of the market for AxKit would be

15 messages 2001/02/01

[#10238] RFC: RubyVM (long) — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

Hi,

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[#10364] Re: RFC: RubyVM (long) — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2001/02/05

[#10708] Suggestion for threading model — Stephen White <spwhite@...>

I've been playing around with multi-threading. I notice that there are

11 messages 2001/02/11

[#10853] Re: RubyChangeRequest #U002: new proper name for Hash#indexes, Array#indexes — "Mike Wilson" <wmwilson01@...>

10 messages 2001/02/14

[#11037] to_s and << — "Brent Rowland" <tarod@...>

list = [1, 2.3, 'four', false]

15 messages 2001/02/18

[#11094] Re: Summary: RCR #U002 - proper new name fo r indexes — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

12 messages 2001/02/19

[#11131] Re: Summary: RCR #U002 - proper new name fo r indexes — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>

Robert Feldt wrote:

10 messages 2001/02/19

[#11251] Programming Ruby is now online — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

36 messages 2001/02/21

[#11469] XML-RPC and KDE — schuerig@... (Michael Schuerig)

23 messages 2001/02/24
[#11490] Re: XML-RPC and KDE — schuerig@... (Michael Schuerig) 2001/02/24

Michael Neumann <neumann@s-direktnet.de> wrote:

[#11491] Negative Reviews for Ruby and Programming Ruby — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2001/02/24

Hi all:

[#11633] RCR: shortcut for instance variable initialization — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

13 messages 2001/02/26

[#11652] RE: RCR: shortcut for instance variable initialization — Michael Davis <mdavis@...>

I like it!

14 messages 2001/02/27

[#11700] Starting Once Again — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>

OK, I'm starting again with Ruby. I'm just assuming that I've

31 messages 2001/02/27
[#11712] RE: Starting Once Again — "Aaron Hinni" <aaron@...> 2001/02/27

> 2. So far I think running under TextPad will be better than running

[#11726] Re: Starting Once Again — Aleksi Niemel<zak@...> 2001/02/28

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Aaron Hinni wrote:

[ruby-talk:11430] Re: XML (was: trial balloon: Ruby desktop?)

From: Kevin Smith <sent@...>
Date: 2001-02-24 04:38:33 UTC
List: ruby-talk #11430
Stephen White wrote:
>Just a brief side-track... but I'm seeing "XML" everywhere and I just don't
>click onto why everyone's talking about it.

My basic view is that XML is a big step up from 
CSV (comma separated value) ASCII files. Any 
place that I would have written out ASCII data, I 
would now choose XML instead. Obviously import, 
export, and data exchange are examples.

Moving a bit beyond that, I would consider XML as 
a native storage format for certain applications, 
but not apps that are heavily database-oriented.

Finally, RPC via XML is an interesting extension. 
I view this as ASCII-izing component interactions 
that would otherwise be binary (COM, CORBA). As 
"Pragmatic Programmer" explains, it's really nice 
to keep your data in a human-viewable format, 
when possible.

>I don't even grok why expat is 300k of C source to find <tags>, so that
>gives you an idea how little I know...

Me neither. I got frustrated trying to find a 
simple HTML/XML parser, so I wrote my own (in C++ 
at work). It was about 150 lines and did exactly 
what I needed it to do.

Kevin

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