14 May
2004
14 May
'04
3:36 p.m.
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:31:01AM -0500, Jack O'Quin wrote:
I'm having trouble figuring out Fons' original
point here, though I'm
sure he has one. Simple and human readable are worthwhile goals, but
hard to reconcile.
Strange.. I'd think these two would go hand in hand...
Whit 'simple' and 'line by line' I mean
- you read in a line with fgets()
- look at the first word, a keyword that tells you all about the format
of the line
- use sscanf() to read the rest.
Why rule out XML? It's one of the few widely-used
language groups
that actually sorta meets both those requirements (*fairly* simple and
*somewhat* human-readable). ;-)
*somewhat* if properly formatted and indented. And evven then it's
bloated. XML was one of the reasons I gave up on Gnome. After having read
the forests (a forest is a lot of trees) for weeks I still was unable
to kill the file browser permanently.
The other examples that readily come to mind are even
worse. LISP
appeals to me as an alternative, but that's probably not what he
wants, either.
LISP is quite nice actually, but you'd need a complete LISP engine to
read it...
It shouldn't be that hard. All we want is a list of ports and their
properties.
--
FA