Thought this message from the Squeak list
might be of interest to Bootstrapers.
The links at the bottom here are quite interesting.
This first is a short paper giving XML examples (and a comparison to
Lisp).
The second is a good source of links related to XML.
-Paul Fernhout
Kurtz-Fernhout Software
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Developers of custom software and educational simulations
Creators of the Garden with Insight(TM) garden simulator
http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com
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Subject: Re: Squeak as Metaverse reminds me of something concrete...
Resent-Date: 19 Jul 2000 03:23:09 -0000
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 22:28:36 -0500
From: "Martin B. Pomije" <pomije@inav.net>
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To: squeak@cs.uiuc.edu
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"Raab, Andreas" wrote:
>
> Tom,
>
> Interesting idea. I think that there's one major difference between XML and
> Squeak ImageSegments here. XML is a "well defined" (yeah, sort of)
> externalized description of objects. ImageSegments (in particular) are a
> partial object memory. The "largest" difference (read that literally) is
> that XML is 90% overhead. So I think that rearranging groups of objects
> mainly helps compressing the overhead better :)
>
There is a lot of outrageous hype about XML.
Philip Wadler, a programming language expert at Bell Labs, provides some
balance here:
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/wadler/papers/next700/next700.pdf
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/wadler/xml/
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