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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I have not yet had to do any Soap, but I must add praise for the published work:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Well documented (with good figures!), clean source code from a quick glance, tests available and all without any NIFs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">In the future, if I’d ever face a Soap-dragon, I feel I could use this library as armour and mount my trusty old Erlang-horse
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">/Ola<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> erlang-questions-bounces@erlang.org [mailto:erlang-questions-bounces@erlang.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Chandru<br>
<b>Sent:</b> den 4 mars 2016 08:36<br>
<b>To:</b> Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@cs.otago.ac.nz><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Erlang Questions <erlang-questions@erlang.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [erlang-questions] [ANN] soap library for Erlang<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 4 March 2016 at 05:23, Richard A. O'Keefe <<a href="mailto:ok@cs.otago.ac.nz" target="_blank">ok@cs.otago.ac.nz</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 4/03/16 6:06 am, <a href="mailto:Chandru.Mullaparthi@bet365.com" target="_blank">
Chandru.Mullaparthi@bet365.com</a> wrote:<br>
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> So I'm pleased to announce our first open source contribution<br>
> to the Erlang community. An application named 'soap' is now<br>
> available on GitHub which allows you to consume and expose<br>
> web services easily from Erlang.<br>
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I see that you've even written documentation worth having for<br>
it too. I want to say something nice without gushing.<br>
"How kind of you?" "Well done?" Something along those lines.<br>
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Frankly, having tried to read the SOAP specification, I think<br>
you're programming _heroes_.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you Richard, coming from you I'll take that as high praise :-) <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I used to have a quote (I think from the Tex manual by someone named Dick Brandon if I'm not mistaken) on my desk which said something like:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"Documentation is like sex. When it is good, it is very very good. When it is bad it is better than nothing" and use that as a justification for not writing good (any) documentation. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But I've grown up now and know better that without good documentation, the work is only half done, if that.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To give credit where credit is due, Willem wrote all the code and the lion's share of the documentation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chandru<o:p></o:p></p>
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