Bill Maas wrote: > I'm very much in favour of lifting the word Scraper into the official IT > jargon...
The term has been around for ages. I think I recall first hearing of it in the 1980's. It was definitely big business in the mid-1990's: to put a web interface on top of old legacy systems, a middle layer mapped out X and Y coordinates of every character on the terminal and then 'scraped' what was in the expected spot. If the old terminal-based interface changed or a mistake was made in the heuristics, then you got garbage. As an analogy, think about logging in without a display (of any kind) and blindly using the shell. It's that level of flailing about. -Lars _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
