On Sep 13, 2010, at 5:39 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > >> Widely used, classic, useful tools then. > > XML is easily parsed with Perl. It's more widely used than awk or > sed, and far more useful.
And far more of a conceptual mess. But regardless of personal preference, why not embrace the whole available tookit? Line-oriented formats don't prevent you from using Perl. Gschem's format is a fine example of a format that has short, concise documentation, is easy to parse, and is fundamentally as expressive as XML. > > "Classic" is not a point in your favor here. When Larry Wall learns to write as clearly as Brian Kernighan, I'll agree. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ j...@noqsi.com _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
