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Re: Wanted: HyperMail Done Right
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel W. Connolly)
Mon Dec 25 11:45:03 1995
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Dec 1995 23:32:42 EST."
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Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1995 11:37:43 -0500
From: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@beach.w3.org>
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In message <m0tU4aY-0002USC@beach.w3.org>, "Daniel W. Connolly" writes:
>
>Hypermail is great. Mhonarc is even better. But I've got a lot of
>ideas for improvements:
Ah! I just remembered one more:
>Goals:
10. Support a WYSIWYG-ASCII format, alal SeText or WikiWikiWeb[1]
so that folks can send reasonable looking plain text email,
but it can be converted to rich HTML in an automated fashion.
and Daniel reminded me:
12. Interoperate with USENET somehow. (perhaps the archive
parallels a moderated newsgroup?)
[What's written below is not meant to be flaim bait. Please
don't take it that way.]
Python, perl5, java, tcl, C, whatever -- as long as it installs easily
on lots of platforms. I prefer python because it's integrated with ILU
today, and I like the style of the programs written in python.
The languages are equally expressive, but the development community
around them shares certain idioms and values, and I prefer the python
culture to the others. python is inspired by Modula-3, my favorite of
all. Have a look at the python libraries for rfc822 messages, URLs,
HTTP servers and such. (I don't like guido's design for the htmllib,
though. And that chameleon os interface: blech!)
Java may be even better, but it's not straightforward to install on
lots of platforms yet.
Dan
[1] http://c2.org/
