From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Feb 12 20:49:48 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 82CF937B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 20:49:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay.omnis.com (smtp-relay.omnis.com [216.239.128.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E74AE43FB1 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 20:49:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.homeunix.net (66-75-151-22.san.rr.com [66.75.151.22]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28CB443059; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 20:49:47 -0800 (PST) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr To: Terry Lambert , Bakul Shah Subject: Re: syslog.conf syntax change (multiple program/host specifications) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 04:49:45 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Garrett Wollman , arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200302122038.PAA00115@thunderer.cnchost.com> <3E4B055A.641E4B6A@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3E4B055A.641E4B6A@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302130449.45547.wes@softweyr.com> 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 On Thursday 13 February 2003 02:39, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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. Uh, formulation of the SGML standard in the early 90s? I bought my first copy of the ISO SGML standard before I left Logicon in 1987. I might still have it around here somewhere... -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message