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From: Mark Crispin <mrc+imap@panda.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:46 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] History question.
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On Fri, 27 May 2011, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> I've noticed there are many people who want web 2.0 kind of interface to
> emails (xml/ajax/dunno)

Only now?

> And why
> aren't they just using IMAP? Because they're scared of even trying to
> use it.

To those who only know Web 2.0, solutions that don't look like Web 2.0 are
hostile and problematic.

I think that it's the poor CS education that most students get these days:
Java as a first programming language, with cookbook software development
using large libraries and predefined templates.  I've met graduates of CS
programs who don't comprehend pointers and recursion!

There's a middle ground between the Scylla of being so mathematical that
real-world engineering is lost, and the Charybdis of making everything be
the assembly of Lego blocks.

> Hmm. IMAP over XML maybe?..

That wasn't an earthquake you just felt.  That was me shuddering in
horror.

-- Mark --

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Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.

