[CALUG] Mailing List Removal (was RE: Ruby and Rusty Rails)

[Keith]

Oh man that made me laugh when I really needed to today. Thanks! :D

Keith

On 10/19/06, Rick Radzville <rradzville at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Are you asking because managers never know how to do anything, or
> because architects never know the details of how anything works? Or is
> it just because you're too technical to RTFM? Here's the link:
> http://www.calug.com/subscribe.html
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces at calug.com [mailto:lug-bounces at calug.com] On Behalf Of
> M-Saadoun DBA Manager
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:00 PM
> To: clinton at unknownlamer.org; JECottrell3 at Comcast.NET; lug at calug.com
> Subject: Re: [CALUG] Ruby and Rusty Rails
>
> Hi All
> How can I get out of this mailing list , please advice
>
> Regards
>
>
> Mohamed Saadoun
> Technical DBA-Manager
> & Solution Architector
> ----------------------------
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>
> >From: Clinton Ebadi <clinton at unknownlamer.org>
> >To: James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <JECottrell3 at Comcast.NET>, lug at calug.com
> >Subject: Re: [CALUG] Ruby and Rusty Rails
> >Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:43:56 -0400
> >
> >James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <JECottrell3 at Comcast.NET> writes:
> >
> > > Speaking of LISP, HTML and XML would have worked much better as
> > > S-expressions. Consider:
> > >
> > > (html ()
> > > (head () (title () A Web Page))
> > > (body ()
> > > (h2 ((color . red)(font . times)) Off With His Head!)
> > > (p ((color . black) Curiouser (i () and) curiouser.)))
> >
> >http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/SXML.html
> >
> >http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/xml.html
> >
> >What you describe is essentially 3NF of SXML which is much much nicer
> >to work with than XML in any non-Lisp/Scheme language. Whenever I have
> >to transform XML docs for work (they insist on using PHP due to
> >general lack of brain power / "we can't have you become
> >irreplacement") I write a scheme program to do it. XSLT sucks compared
> >to SXSLT (or even just using the Scheme list operations on the XML).
> >
> >I used to hate XML but now I tolerate it since it's so easy to process
> >in my favorite language as it is merely a tree. The external
> >representation is of little consequence when you can write tools to
> >easily deal with it (e.g. it'd be trivial to make nxml-mode in emacs
> >display the document as an sexp if you really wanted).
> >
> >Common Lisp has cxml (which is basically SXML with the @ to start the
> >attributes alist) for parsing and transforming XML, and UCW includes
> >yaclml that is great for generating XML (you can translate Zope TAL
> >templates into it, define your own tag macros, ...).
> >
> >'Obsolete' 1950s technology proving itself to be better than
> >everything else out that for the problems that the industry wants to
> >solve nowadays. I say let the unwashed masses suffer with their lesser
> >languages while those of us who can use the good ones safe much effort
> >and profit more.
> >--
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