--- Neill Newman neill@entora.co.uk wrote:
David Freeman wrote:
OK - it could be done as a java server process on the
webserver/some
server somewhere, that way we could have a java client or a web client...the java server could spit/recieve XML and all could be
well
in the world...
XML != nice. HTML does the job fine.
hhmmm at the point of starting a flame I'd like to say that xml is very good at what it does, removes content from markup, html is contant and markup munged together, not nice!! html is ok for small/medium sites, but any decent large scale dynamic stuff is all xml with xslt->html translators, believe me, xml is worth the effort...
XML has always appeared as a very complex thing which I haven't needed to use for my very simple web site! Can any one recommend a good primer for XML.
me, sick, never (Oh, did I mention that I've done that sorta
stuff
before, perl talking to java is "fun", nearly as fun as java
talking
to CGIs).
/me = C and Java apprentice programmer and obeyer of the KISS
principle
/me = C, Java, UML, OO, C++, Perl, PHP hacker.. I was taught OO by a Grady Booch Phd student ;) so if you need a hand with the design/implementation then give me a shout, (I've been programming in Java, both commercially and academically, since 1995 ;)...
/me = self tought with far to many habits
But I've just written my first kernel MODULE!!! and it work, which was a big surprise
Thanks D PS one of these days I will learn a proper language AKA Lisp and
write
some decent type programs.
aarrgghhhh no, lisp is evil ;).. *duck*
Yes, it may be evil, but the darker side is very appealing. Just like small talk seams appeally. A OO language where everything is an object, it just makes sense, the way the world works is to pass messages (instructions, sentences etc...) between objects (humans, animals, objects etc...)
ONe language I don't want to learn is C++.
I like the quotes on the smalltalk website
"I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." � Alan Kay
and my personally favourites
"C++ : an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog" � unknown
"Claiming Java is easier than C++ is like saying that K2 is shorter than Everest." � Larry O'Brien (editor, Software Development)
I Am amazed that there is such a holy war about programming languages, particully the language people first learnt was there favourite and all others are programmed as if they were using the first language.
Thanks
D
Sz
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