Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 23:29:02 -0000 From: "George Barnett" <george@alink.co.za> To: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: aaaarrrrggghhh - I can't remember and it's killling me.. Message-ID: <004a01c2a3c8$95f3e150$0100000a@D9NLZD0J>
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> Most stuff is being put in HTML or XML or PDF or even DOC and other > complex, poorly-documented, formats. And much is being put into I'm doing a simple dig on various nameservers and listing the output side by side. Using XML in place of a 5 line shell script would be like swatting a fly with a ping-pong bat (A bit slower and you're likely to miss :).. > I suspect that much data would be better off in plain-text files, and > very much effort (ie, money) wasted by a general move to non-text forms There's a good case for keeping large batches of data in well managed central databases. If you're able to query this data from a nice XML template then you'll probably same time and money. The key is picking the right tool for the job. I recall asking one of my tutors why he bothered to write code for Windows. His response was something along the lines of: "No sense [unix] using a big hammer on a small nail. Likewise, no sense using a small hammer [Windows] on a big nail." --george To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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