From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2002-02-24T04:26:49+09:00
Subject: Re: rdoc/xml questions

james@rubyxml.com wrote:


> The problem I have with many of these markup syntax is that the specific cases often  do
> not do quite what I want (or require you to opt-in to a particular modeling philosophy),
> and the broader, extensible formats become annoyingly complex for even simple
> descriptions.
> 
> There's a tradeoff when buying into someone else's spec: you get some reuse of tools and
> whatnot, but you may have to kludge the syntax to express what you want.
> 
> As with the discussion on a Ruby-way XML API, rdoc may do best with a Ruby-way markup
> syntax (whatever that happens to be).


Would you write your own programming language, befor evaluating existing 
ones?


Tobi


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