From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Feb 12 18:40:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ECF337B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:40:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2104E43FAF for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:40:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0418.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.163] helo=mindspring.com) by puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18j9Ip-0004Xi-00; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:40:44 -0800 Message-ID: <3E4B055A.641E4B6A@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:39:22 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bakul Shah Cc: Garrett Wollman , Wes Peters , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslog.conf syntax change (multiple program/host specifications) References: <200302122038.PAA00115@thunderer.cnchost.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4eba57c6774183d52bce7f42df6f7ad58548b785378294e88350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bakul Shah wrote: > In my view XML is to data representation what Roman numerals > are to math. *This* belongs in the fortunes database. > Rather than repeat all the arguments I'll point you to what > knowledgeable people like Erik Naggum have to say about XML > (search comp.lang.lisp on groups.google.com). Naggum used to > be a strong proponent of SGML until he "saw the light"! A > couple of recent thread on XML on comp.lang.lisp are worth > browsing. Erik is hardly unbiased. Back "in the old days" of the early 1990's, when we were first discussing the formulation of the SGML standard on Usenet, he lost some bitter battles with the main SGML guys about representation in DTD's and a number of other points. He may or may not be the "forgive and forget" type of guy. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message