Re: XML: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 18:49:37 -0400
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"Lemming" <thiswillbounce_at_bumblbee.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Parsers ought to be easier to write, but my experience of watching C++
This is very discouraging. I would have expected the value of OO for
writing simulators, going back to SIMULA, would carry over into parsers.
Then again, maybe it takes a long time to become a good C++ programmer.
Maybe the time it takes tolearn C++ distracts from time spent learning
programming.
I'm not referring to the OO features of C++. Rather to the features that
> programmers struggling to parse even fairly simple XML structures
> leads me to think that it is in fact a lot harder than csv or even
> structured flat files.