Re: XML: The good, the bad, and the ugly

"mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message news:41544540$0$65124$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> Laconic2 wrote:
>
> > XML... ... Neat! They've
> > extended the concept of self-describing data to data
> > in transit as well as data inside a DBMS.
>
> > ... But XML instead of DBMS? ...
> > It would be like trying to put a capsule on the
> > moon by using a baseball bat!
>
> Or with a cannon - which is how Jules Verne pictured it.
> This brings us back to hammering screws. Not so strange if you've
> never learned how to use a screwdriver.

Yeah. The long and the short of it is that a kid with a hammer is bad news in IT. It doesn't matter whether the hammer is XML, or XP, or OOP, or SQL, or Java, or even (dare I say it?) the RDM.

I mentioned star schema in another discussion. I sure hope I never run into a kid with a hammer where the hammer is star schema! Received on Fri Sep 24 2004 - 21:08:05 CEST