Re: Bob needs a new catchphrase

From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_dbms.yuc>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:14:37 GMT
Message-ID: <hTI1h.230408$5R2.172845@pd7urf3no>

David Cressey wrote:
> "paul c" <toledobythesea_at_dbms.yuc> wrote in message
> news:Mvz1h.226612$5R2.204996_at_pd7urf3no...

>> Bob Badour wrote:
>>> paul c wrote:
>>>
>>>> BobTheDataBaseBoy wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>> To quote Allen Holub (a coder):  "Just say No to XML".  I will add,
>>>>> in all its forms.
>>>> The thing is, a bunch of people were asleep at the switch when the
>>>> internet's growth underlined the need for better transfer formats, so
>>>> as often happens the first attempt even though inferior prevailed.
>>> I respectfully suggest no new transfer formats were needed in the first
>>> place. To the ignorant, everything is a novel idea. Or perhaps better:
>>> those who ignore history are doomed to re-invent it.
>>> ...
>> For my own purposes, not necessarily the rest of the world's, I thought
>> CVS was okay.

>
> Did you mean CSV? I used that format extensively back in the 90s, as a kind
> of "lowest common format" for data exchange
> between systems? It is, of course, unmanaged data, but it sure is easy.
>
>
>

I guess I mis-typed and should have said CSV, though I didn't mean to tout it. Its main attraction was simply that various products supported importing or exporting it in some fashion.

Also, I interpreted Bob B's comment as meaning that no new formats are needed, assuming we have conventions for passing catalogue data around, eg., constraints.

p Received on Tue Oct 31 2006 - 08:14:37 CST