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Tim Bray exposes his Unixocentrism thus:
> Several people have said that there's an
> impedance mismatch between FILE * and sockets. Weird, I try to talk to
> sockets through files whenever possible, and with fflush(), FILE *
> works fine.
[snip]
> The notion of transcoding XML *away* from UTF-8 seems highly bizarre.
> But don't pipes provide a high-quality solution to 80% of the small
> proportion of cases where you want to do further processing on the XML
> on the way out?
Unix good, Windows bad, in these cases.
> If I were convinced of the 80% number, the argument would be over.
> Because if genx hits an 80/20 point, I'll be more than happy. David
> Tolpin & others have got me worried that the non-FILE * use cases are
> more than that.
"Make easy things easy, and hard things possible."
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com
Be yourself. Especially do not feign a working knowledge of RDF where
no such knowledge exists. Neither be cynical about RELAX NG; for in
the face of all aridity and disenchantment in the world of markup,
James Clark is as perennial as the grass. --DeXiderata, Sean McGrath
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