Re: what does "serialization" mean?

From: Corey Murtagh (emonk_at_slingshot.no.uce)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:56:11 +1200

Edward G. Nilges wrote:
> Programmer Dude <Chris@Sonnack.com> wrote in message news:<9vshd01eu4nra04aemjekb9fpl747oiom9@4ax.com>...
>
>>Edward G. Nilges writes:
>>
>>>But back to "reality" (as presently constructed) we must speak in
>>>ASCII and this means XML.
>>
>>Funny, most of the XML documents I work with (it's the lingua franca
>>of the application my group supports) start with:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" ?>
>>
>>The remainder start with:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
>>
>>Look Ma, no ASCII.
>
> Look Ma, somebunny can't see the forest for the trees. No, Chris
> honey, XML is best used exclusively with what is ordinarily meant by
> ascii.

Regardless of what /you/ may think is 'ordinarily meant' by ascii, the
American Standard Code for Information Interchange is reasonably well
defined. As is UTF-8, UTF-16 and a number of other character sets
and/or codings. And since you seem to be particularly without clue,
I'll loan you one of mine: ASCII != UTF-8.

> Part of the reason for the 80% failure rate of enterprise systems is
> little circles and groups with their own private language.

Ah, nostalgia. Has anyone kept a list of the hundreds of things that
eddie has claimed are responsible (in part or in full) for that mythical
80% failure rate?

<snip>
> I am well aware, however, that because you don't understand OOD (as
> evidenced by your advising a newbie to use the Set statement in
> VB.Net), your goal is to filibuster, troll and disrupt this discussion
> lest your limitations as a developer emerge.

How exactly does not knowing the difference between VB and VB.NET relate
to lack of understanding of OOD? I submit that it is completely
unrelated, and that this is yet another of eddies badly-formed ad
hominem attacks. 

-- 
Corey Murtagh
The Electric Monk
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!"

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