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2005-03-19 02:59:25 AM
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On 03/18/05, Brion L. Webster said:
years, and in one place I worked, I actually forbade the use of 3D (it
added no value to the business), as it merely brought the machine to a
crawl, and the operator spent most of his time in the cafeteria.
We've more power on our desks than was possessed by most banks a mere
20 years ago, and yet we often see our machines slow to a snail's pace.
Had that happened on those banking machines, you can bet that IBM would
have been skewered.
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Bill
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" They (American universities) do indeed cultivate diversity in race,
skin color, ethnicity, {*word*225} preference. In everything but thought."
-- George Will
 

"options" will typically be stored either in the Registry, a File, or
database. If using a File, you will often times use either an INI file, a
proprietary format, or XML. I lean towards XML on this (granted I have a
bias towards it as well).
IMHO, the biggest pro for XML in applications is unforseen needs for the
data being stored. it is *much* easier to transform an XML document then say
an INI file. So if your file changes between versions, you can include a
conversion stylesheet to upgrade application data...
Bryce K. Nielsen
SysOnyx, Inc. (www.sysonyx.com)
Makers of xmlLinguist, the Text-to-XML Translator
www.sysonyx.com/products/xmllinguist
 

On 03/18/05, Bryce K. Nielsen said:
favorable toward it. ;)
I have no issue with its use as an alternative to an INI file, but when
people emply XML for the data in a word processor -- or worse -- a
database, then I am afraid they've gone off the rails. XML is another
path to bloat, and does not lend itself to efficient processing. In
small things, like configuration options, the penalty is invisible.
In larger apps, as those I mentioned, it becomes another source of both
bloat and sluggishness.
--
Bill
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" They (American universities) do indeed cultivate diversity in race,
skin color, ethnicity, {*word*225} preference. In everything but thought."
-- George Will
 

Eric Schreiber writes:
 

Sanford Aranoff writes:
system again. Very annoying when it happens.
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David Clegg
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