From: M

To: Editor

Date: 13 May 2004

 

More foolish thought from the XML-is-the-best camp:

 

What's amazing is that they say:

 

And yes, there are better (i.e. more succinct, and hence easier to process) ways to represent the semantics of programs than XML, but we believe that will turn out in practice to be irrelevant. XML can do the job, and is becoming universal; it is therefore difficult to imagine that anything else will be so compelling as to displace it.

--G. Wilson, third-bit.com

 

So, because everyone is jumping off of a bridge we should do it to? I would think of one is going to suggest, and implement, a new paradigm then one should make the *right* choices, not the *most convenient*.

 

You could just as easily store elements of a computer program in a RDBMS (or even a SQL DBMS for that matter).

 

 

From: Fabian Pascal

To: M

 

Unfortunately, the industry does operate in "jump-off-the bridge" mode. It's quite profitable.

 

 

Posted 08/20/04