On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 21:03 -0500, hhalpin@i... wrote:
> However, if one is programming something that might shoot missles or crash
> airplanes, I sure wouldn't rely on either Python or C - I'd rely on
> something with proof-proving capabilities and a strong type system, as
> well as good modularity.

I thought we were talking about XML processing.  If you're not, then
never mind.  "something that might shoot missiles or crash airplanes" is
not really something I find relevant at the moment (nor on this list).


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Use CSS to display XML - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xmlcss-i.html
Full XML Indexes with Gnosis - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/12/08/py-xml.html
Be humble, not imperial (in design) - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=10286
UBL 1.0 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think28.html
Use Universal Feed Parser to tame RSS - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipufp.html
Default and error handling in XSLT lookup tables - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tiplook.html
A survey of XML standards - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-stand4/
The State of Python-XML in 2004 - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/10/13/py-xml.html