On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > [...]
> > etc). A lot of attention is put in describing usages of that
> > language within the language itself, so that you don't need
> > separate "document-type definition" (DTD) nor "interface
> > description" (IDL) languages to do that.
> The first half is much better, but the part about not needing DTD or
> IDL could stand clarification.
XML is much of a two-part system, with "normal" XML on one side and DTD
(with a special syntax) on the other side. Because this separation is
artificial, LGRAM uses the same basic syntax for both parts.
There is also a bit of overlap between a DTD system and an IDL system, and
I thought the latter could reuse structure and semantics from the former,
_in_addition_of_ sharing a common syntax.
> > So are you willing to write and maintain "LGRAM for Python" ?
> Sorry, not me -- too busy already. Do you have volunteers for the
> other languages?
Not yet, but I have a good background in four of those languages, and I'm
quite willing to learn the other one. Granted it may take some time
before you see all five implementations in all four levels. ;-) (unless i
get volunteers other than myself)
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