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[juan_gandhi]

Two questions...

I am developing RSS API (to be published on http://myjavatools.com next week), so...

1. Does it ever make sense to generate RSS other than ver. 2.0?
2. Does it make sense to add a finder by guid?
3. Any ideas regarding adding some kind of "real syndication" in the class(es)?

Comments

[scriptum.livejournal.com]

I can't have much input on this theme as I deal with other issues, such as creating a language for high-level description of the event-driven process chains - much more interesting theme, in my humble opinion.

[ivan-gandhi.livejournal.com]

Is UML not good enough for you?

I saw so many people busy creating languages for high-level this or that - but I actually long ago stopped seeing any point in creating any "high-level" but strictly specialized languages.

And you will probably agree that there is no deep science in computer "science". Just an applied art. Like pottery.

[scriptum.livejournal.com]

I agree with the last point since about 1986 when I knew nothing about computers - that't the point that a friend of mine expressed to me when he was writing a Ph.D. thesis at Estonian Institute of Cybernetics. They were developing some visual pseudo-language for applications.
About the first point: we can run our "UML" - I mean we have an IDE, a compiler and a web run-time environment.

[ivan-gandhi.livejournal.com]

Right, you hit the point. Estonian Institute of Cybernetics. A smart ass, Raivo Raud. He's in Germany now.

He came to St.Petersburg, to talk to us about languages - you know, all Estonians that I know look down at Russians (which is funny) - and he draw a graph of about 95 languages of which we mostly never heard of, and never had an intention to hear of - we were just busy developing our cute beautiful all-purpose implementation of Forth, and the Estonian guys regularly came to get the latest version and to tell us how stupid all the Russians are, and how useless are Russian programmers - and we laughed...

On the other hand, they had one great guy, Enn To~ugu.

[scriptum.livejournal.com]

Interesting, academician Tyugu was a scientific adviser of my friend. The latter is in Germany too, now. I met Tyugu at his dacha once - he had a nice sauna at the time.

[ivan-gandhi.livejournal.com]

You see!