On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Andreas Raab wrote:
From an outsider's perspective, this seems like a really strange
strategy. Code size isn't a terribly big deal -- the thing the Squeak community is most constrained by is programmer time.
Code size isn't but complexity is. Usually these two go hand in hand and therefore it's no strange argument at all. In fact I'd argue that programmer time is (in this particular case) mostly dictated by the complexity involved in the parser itself - most people will want to do pretty simple stuff.
I totally agree. When I evaluated the available XML parsers out there this summer (for a "real" project), I went with Duane's package because it was very simple and straight foward to use, but had the features I needed. I think that such a mindset would be a good idea for whomever chooses which XML parser goes into the image.
Regards, Aaron
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