From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2004-05-05T08:46:57+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML vs. Marshal

Ara.T.Howard wrote:

>by reinvention i meant the 'object access protocol' bit.  i mean, soap is a
>lot more than just serialization, it's __what__ you are serializing (an object
>request) that has had much work done...  but i guess if you leveraged drb...
>then who knows...
>  
>
Right, yeah.  Method dispatch stuff would have to be worked out.  That 
would be a bit of reinvention.

>my latest yaml project is an nfs accessed on disk priority queue that i'm
>using to distribute jobs to consumers located on 36 machines.  the cool thing
>about it is that grep and vi work to modifiy it - too cool.... so - i'm
>definitely a believer...
>
Your faith is unimpeachable, Ara.  And give my best to your 36 machines.

_why