Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu) writes:
>
>
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Ed Carp wrote:
>
> > > So, we end up with all white space except newline ignored, but we
> > > do have the line continuation character, which some people probably
> > > find annoying. At least it doesn't have to be in column 72.
> >
> > The problem with this sort of mismash is that you spend more time writing a parser for the data than it's worth. But I guess people in this industry have forgotten KISS a long time ago. If I have to spend days writing a parser for ASCII data, my clients will hit the roof - and rightfully so.
>
> Erm... You know, column 150-odd is also not a good idea...
What kind of mail UA are you using to read email? Almost every mail UA that I know of automatically wraps lines of text for you.
> [reformatted]
> > The problem with this sort of mismash is that you spend more time writing a
> > parser for the data than it's worth. But I guess people in this industry
> > have forgotten KISS a long time ago. If I have to spend days writing a
> > parser for ASCII data, my clients will hit the roof - and rightfully so.
>
> Sure. _Why_ would writing a parser take more than 15 minutes it takes to
> use yacc(1) and lex(1) and possibly 30 more to transliterate the results
> into library-free variant? Or couple of hours to build the fscking tables
> by hands. Sigh... I have to repeat my "ASCII is tough" comment - looks
> like reading through the "Using flex and bison", let alone first chapters
> of Aho & Ullman is oh-too-complex task. Sheesh...
That's not the point. The point is, it's not the right thing to do.
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