Re: Ideas that didn't come off


Scout <Toothpaste@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Many many years ago, I invented a system to make my turbo >pascal

My turn.

I was at University, and have two homeworks, each for a different teacher. In the first homework, I had to write a formated document in HTML file, no big deal.

The second homework, I had to make an application that read & write hierarchical ("treelike") data, but I have trouble dealing with them, beacuse each data had different size, some use 2 o 3 characters, while other may use more than 255 characters (pascal string).

So, I had a HTML print of the first homework, at hand, and I tought "Why I don't store the data as an HTML file, instead of a binary file ?"

So, I finish both homeworks. Make a small HTML parser to read the data for my application.

Two years later, I heard of something called "X.M.L." ...
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