Marshall Spight wrote:
> I am still at a loss to explain the attraction of XML-family standards
> to impressive people such as yourself and Philip Wadler.
... Abiteboul, Vianu, Libkin and countless outhers. Perhaps they never
got their hands dirty in the field? Say writing a client which is
supposed to query payroll data from enterprise system. Naturally,
enterprise systems these days don't provide you connection which you
just could run SQL query over. Their "progressive" design pushes XML
formatted data to the client. I don't think anybody who dealt with XML
based solutions for enterprise application integration would develop
anything different from Pascal-like attitude towards XML.
Received on Wed Feb 08 2006 - 20:28:22 CST
