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Re: advocating XML
- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- To: Danny Ayers <danny@panlanka.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 07:06:06 -0500 (EST)
Danny Ayers scripsit:
> A rather convincing argument against the unix approach could be - my server
> isn't running unix.
Unix by historical origin, but not by current applicability. Perl runs on
all major environments, and so do the various GNU tools.
> However, I do have an seriously versatile toolbox in the form of Java and I
> don't need another skill set for this application or virtually any other you
> care to mention.
Sure. There are *lots* of portable platforms these days.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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