Re: [xml-dev] W3C Schema: Resistance is Futile, says Don Box

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Re: [xml-dev] W3C Schema: Resistance is Futile, says Don Box
Paul Prescod wrote:

> Oh really? So I guess I'm hallucinating when I see client and server
> implementations of HTTP each in less than a thousand lines of code. 

Up through late 1995, the Yahoo server was 800 lines of C code whacked 
up by Filo.  HTTP is not hard to implement even today, at the protocol 
level.  If you want to do it in a general-purpose way with application 
dispatching and good performance, yep, the problem is bigger. -Tim