Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 07:22:54 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: XML Output: libxo - provide single API to output TXT, XML, JSON and HTML Message-ID: <4606.1406704974@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20140730065953.GJ43962@funkthat.com> References: <20140725044921.9F0D3580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> <CAETOPp13H7kyLy-1VJRDOsDbOh8A1MWZDxw1xHUBsxTRtMfc7g@mail.gmail.com> <20140728054217.AC1A0580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> <20140728055336.GJ50802@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <CAETOPp3hJB8Gj%2BPMj3N951krnNqCYiAOY-cPHxMCBy1CQXWJaQ@mail.gmail.com> <A1E63A7A-BB38-4CC3-B5EC-B251BE990572@mail.turbofuzz.com> <CAETOPp0c1xfMj1vDvQRSoV3ec-LdJmyT9AFH02iziN0yuY1D-A@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmomiwUWHWYLdLcQAnp7QBmvQR2wfPoCy=eie-jrvyw0HfA@mail.gmail.com> <20140730065953.GJ43962@funkthat.com>
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-------- Some of you may recall that I did a keynote at EuroBSDcon 2010 called "Software Tools -- Mission Accomplished or Mission Failure ?" I tried to do a status review of 40 years of UNIX and Software Tools, in part inspired by what I saw as a "user" of the platform while working on Varnish. Historical analysis is useless if it doesn't point us into the future, and that I did, concluding that we needed to move beyond 80 char wide ASCII text-files finishing my talk with this "ridiculous" idea: Solution: Change kernel & userland to understand XML instead of flat ASCII. grep --tag H3 ”crazy idea” index.html My keynote doesn't seem to exist on the web (I'm pretty sure it was video-taped ?) but I've dug out my slides: http://phk.freebsd.dk/pubs/EuroBSDcon2010_SoftwareTools.pdf In case anybody is interesting in the deeper and wider perspective on why libxo is long overdue. Thumbs up for the people finally realizing it. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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