[ale] Ubuntu 18.04 release notes

[Jim Kinney]

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On April 28, 2018 8:44:49 PM EDT, Pete Hardie via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>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
>>
>> Steve Litt
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