[#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,

20 messages 2001/02/01
[#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]

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[#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

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[#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:11450] Re: XML (was: trial balloon: Ruby desktop?)

From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-02-24 13:35:47 UTC
List: ruby-talk #11450
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Kevin Smith wrote:

> Stephen White wrote:
> 
> >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.

There *really* is (much) more to expat than finding tags.  I have
nothing riding on whether anyone does or does not use it (but note
that if you use the Ruby xmlparser, you're using expat; ditto for
XML::Parser in Perl).  But I would like to discourage even mild
disparagement of James Clark's work, which is, to my mind, phenomenal,
and which has served as bedrock in the open software world.  groff
comes to mind, as do sp (SGML parser) and jade (DSSSL engine).  These
are massive programs, but I'd still recommend erring on the side of
assuming that James isn't needlessly writing extra lines of code :-)

For more on expat, see <http://expat.sourceforge.net>.  For more on
James Clark's other work, see <http://www.jclark.com>.


David

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