XML Considered Harmful

[Avi Gross]

Well, Michael, if you want to go back to the eighties, and people you worked
with, I did my Thesis with a professor who later had an Erdős number of 1!
Too bad I never got around to publishing something with him or I could have
been a 2!

But that work, being so long ago, was not in Python but mainly in PASCAL.

Ah the good old days.

-----Original Message-----
From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+avigross=verizon.net at python.org> On
Behalf Of Michael F. Stemper
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 11:45 AM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: XML Considered Harmful

On 28/09/2021 02.25, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> On 2021-09-27 21:01:04 -0400, Avi Gross via Python-list wrote:
>> You keep talking about generators, though. If the generators are 
>> outside of your program, then yes, you need to read in whatever they
produce.
> 
> As I understood it, the "generators" don't generate the data, they are 
> the subject of the data: Devices that generate electricity by burning 
> fuel and he's modelling some aspect of their operation. Maybe 
> efficiency or power output or something like that (I tried to search 
> for "IHR curve", but couldn't find anything).

If you expand "IHR curve" to "incremental heat rate curve", you'll get
better results. When power engineers talk, we say the first, when we publish
papers, we write the second.

If you want to see the bigger picture, search on "Economic Dispatch".
In fact, doing so points me to something written by a guy I worked with back
in the 1980s:
<http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ458/tesfatsion/EconomicDispatchInt
roToOptimization.DKirschen2004.LTEdits.pdf>

Slide 3 even shows a piecewise-linear curve.

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