Re: DPH

>Ron:
>>  > Canonicalizing the literal just makes things hard for the
>>  > DPH, which will in turn limit the use of RDF.
>>
>>  DPH ? Perl Hacker ?
>
>Desperate Perl Hacker. Origin of term seems to be Jon Bosak in
>the original XML group, exhorting others to keep things simple
>so that the DPH could write simple code to operate on XML as
>strings and get reasonable results. One example of this is
>that end tags must contain the element type, not just </>.
>Longer, but less need use a stack to keep track of scope.
>Didn't really agree with it at the time, but I do now.

Wow. In the year 2001, fundamental design decisions in programing 
languages are critically influenced by the need to protect low-level 
hackers from the burden of implementing a simple stack. IBM 704 
assembler beats LISP after 45 years and about ten (twelve?) orders of 
magnitude increase in processing efficiency.

To hell with the DPH. If he can't parse a nested bracket structure, 
then he doesn't deserve the outrageous salary he is probably earning; 
tell him to take up gardening instead.

Pat
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Received on Monday, 22 October 2001 10:10:50 UTC