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Re: [syndication] Re: RSS Clients



In article <9e18j6+fe4c@eGroups.com>, Bill Kearney
<wkearney99@hotmail.com> writes
>Or perhaps to render them into a local cache on the server.  This 
>would have to be user-specific.  Hmmm, an Outlook digital dashboard 
>might just do the trick!

Previously on Syndication, I'd said
>I feel tempted to suggest a small competition for the smallest,
>neatest, least intrusive bit of code to do this.

If someone can reduce a DVD decoder (deCSS) to 7 lines of perl[1], I'm
sure someone can build an rss box in 1Kb[2]

[1] This is exactly why I hate perl. I went looking for the Switch or
Case statement. I found "There is no Switch, but here are 15 alternate
ways of coding one"
[2] Does anyone remember Space Invaders in 1Kb of machine code on a
ZX81?

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