[ale] Ubuntu 18.04 release notes

[Pete Hardie]

Adding fuel to the fire....
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/17/06/15/1431253/developers-who-use-spaces-make-more-money-than-those-who-use-tabs

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 7:36 PM Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 15:25:44 -0400
> Phil Turmel via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
> > On 04/28/2018 06:31 AM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
> > > On 04/28/2018 02:59 AM, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
> >
> > >> This is just one of the reasons I like Python so much.
> > >
> > > This is one of the reasons I dislike python. ;)
> > > Give me ; anyday.
> >
> > I don't know how to describe how I feel about all of this, as
> > I like both C and python.  However, they're both a delight
> > compared to anything based on XML.
>
> My Stylz authoring environment uses a very typist friendly native
> format, but my pre-converter immediately translates it to XML. Once
> something is in XML format, if you have an XML parser, you can have
> your way with it. Anything you want to do, if you have a decent
> parserer you can do it: You have begin tags, end tags, text, tails,
> attribs: XML is the ultimate intermediate format. You can quickly find
> whatever you need, and there are built in single generation and full
> tree walkers.
>
> But XML as something a user interfaces in an editor: Bwaaaaa haaaaa
> haaaa haaa ha, you gotta be kidding me. You're right: C and Python are
> delightful compared to that (I think they're both pretty delightful
> anyway,  but ...)
>
> XML is wonderful for machines, but a human being should never need to
> confront XML.
>
> SteveT
>
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