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Okay, metayarts are in. There appear to be three forms of the word yart, the noun (a yart, yarts), the adjective (a yarting thread) and the verb (weak, intransive & regular; to yart).
If we are also going to have metayarts - that is, yarts about yarts, then we need to define exactly what they are and how they can best be recognised (metayart recognition), how they should be represented (metayart notation) and how metayart data can be communicated between competing proprietary yarting software systems. This will probably result in further extensions to XML.
To do this successfully, we need to form a committee of representatives from all manufacturers of yarting software who can then argue the toss at expensive meetings held in expensive places, all funded by their employers of course.
After a year or two of such well-paid argument, the representatives will emerge tired and happy with a metayarting standard which will then be submitted to the OMG (Object Management Group) for ratification. The OMG will then subsume the new standard into the latest version of UML (Unified Modelling Language) and issue an amendment to the UML standard. The new metayarting standard will be called the UYS (Unified Yarting Standard) and will be issued to all yarters.
It will then be expected that all yart manufacturers will adhere to the standard to allow easy transfer of metayart data from yart system to yart system.
Sound like a plan to you guys?
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Sound like a plan to you guys?
Sort of yart gratia yartis? Sounds like a very good plan. It also sounds like you would be the very model of a BOFH.
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Anyway you like it except unanimous.
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Maybe we should just sidestep the issue entirely, simply declare something to be a yart with the redundant designation "old yart !", use its acronym, and let it go at that...
(starting-to-be-sorry-I-brought-the-whole-thing-up-in-the-first-place-emoticon)
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There are so few posts, and so few oldtimers, it is simply insult to necomers to call YART.
No need to comment.
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hear hear dr.bill i know you guys may have discussed many points before but to us newbies it is a lot easier to learn through dynamic debate, i like awad because it is a relevant contemporary discussion site, not an archive.
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"...it is simply insult to necomers to call YART."I say we ask each newcomer what is insulting to them as they *come. dodyskin - But it is an archive, as well. For anyone (like Faldage  ) who needs some stinkin' rules... here's the one that nobody seems to be unanimous about: A 'yart' call should be accompanied by the relevant link to the archival post... it kinda takes the edge off of the assignee and the assignor. (Yeah, it stinks)
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A 'yart' call should be accompanied by the relevant link to the archival post... it kinda takes the edge off of the assignee and the assignor.
See, how we're starting to see metayart data definitions coming at us. Keep it up, Muzak!
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And the self-proclaimed parent of the YART gave a splendid example of his treatment
of newcomers, when he caused highlord to delete his first post by sneering that
Highlord was asking us to do his homework for him. That's just what we do not need.
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To give some perspective to the bile emanating from wwh, I happen to know the first person accused of yarting, and it didn't upset him in the slightest. The ability to laugh at oneself is a great gift, as is the ability to get over petty slights. Maybe you should try it one day, wwh.
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