Re: "everything is a file" and beyond

"Andy Valencia From:" <vandys@vsta.org> wrote in message
news:c1ipa8$s42$1@vsta.org...
> stat -w //tty/tty01 baud=57600

perfect. There's a stat command callable from python, too, I'm sure.

> >"Everything is XML"
>
> I did a startup where we did XML as the primitive. It turns out to be
> pretty cumbersome. You find yourself with these huge and complex data
> structures which are the parsed interpretation of the XML, and you have to
> use tons of C code to walk through'em. I think that XML is about as easy
> for a human to traverse visually as a filesystem, but filesystems pull
ahead
> when you then write C code to do the traversals and operations.

I've found the XML libs I've used to be cumbersome, too. I think they can be
less so if we look at them more as extensions to a filesystem (file and
directory) paradigm. I need to scheme further on this, though.

Paul
Received on Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:21:31 -0700