On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 15:47, Peter Corlett <ab...@cabal.org.uk> wrote:
> On 27 Apr 2010, at 14:32, James Laver wrote:
> [...]
>> It's telling that at a large FTSE 250 we were hand constructing the xml
>> (with string concatenation, no less) to get around the shitty libraries
>> problem.
>
> Funnily enough, that's what *I* had to resort to when dealing with SOAP at a 
> FTSE250 company too.
>
> Have you looked at the source of Perl's SOAP::Lite? It's definitely an 
> experience. At least the POD and comments are quick and easy to read, given 
> how few there are. It should be renamed SOAP::Shite.
>
> This could almost be a hate on Perl, but other languages' SOAP 
> implementations don't seem to be any better.

What did the "S" in "SOAP" stand for again? I keep forgetting. Nothing
comes to mind, really.

Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.new...@gmail.com>

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