From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 4 23:32:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA28104 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 23:32:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA28099 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 23:32:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul10.u.washington.edu (root@saul10.u.washington.edu [140.142.13.73]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id XAA39484; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 23:32:03 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul10.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id XAA26996; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 23:32:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 23:31:48 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Mike Smith cc: FreeBSD-chat Subject: Re: Why SGML for docs? In-Reply-To: <199811050724.XAA00456@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: >Consider the relative merits of learning how to drive a car vs. how to >make one from scratch from a pile of rusting sardine tins. The latter >may make a driver out of you, and it'll teach you a lot about how the >car goes together, but if all you want to do is go from A to B ... This is encouraging. blech... :) I happen to building a race car from the ground up as a U project. It is the funnest class I have had but is HUGELY time consuming. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message