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[Len Bullard]
>
>But(at the risk of waking up Dr. Newcomb), what is the role
>of markup in the ecology of systems? Why do you
>think individuals fought for years to get
>it adopted? As I've said before about groves,
>it isn't the power of it that interests me;
>it is the way of it; the behavior of systems
>and environments, in short, people and tools
>required to use it.
"""
Hi Len,
Strangely formatted - but serious post follows.
"""
from EMail EMail, Para, Emph, Line
Root = EMail (
Para (
Line ("Yup. Its weird and it has more to do with people issues"),
Line ("than it has to do with technology issues.")
)
Para (
Line ("After all. It is possible to create a markup language"),
Line (
"with a reasonably readable syntax that is",
Emph ("directly readable"),
"by, say,")
Line ("the Python programming language.")
)
Para (
Line ("For some reason, such things do not fly"),
Line ("despite many advantages in terms of object-orientation"),
Line ("ease of parsing and so on, whereas"),
Line ("pointy bracket systems do!")
)
)
if __name__ == "__main__":
print Root
regards,
Sean,
XML Processing With Python
ISBN: 0 13 021119 2
Prentice Hall
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