Re: wise words
Date: 18 May 2006 12:38:30 -0700
Message-ID: <1147981110.839041.14190_at_g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
I might replace "good enough" with "prevalent enough" in the case of XML. Having used Java interfaces like JDBC, JMS, JNDI, and countless others (including JNI, interfacing to "native" - typically C - libraries), there is little to compare to the horrors of XML libraries and parser confusion (DOM, JDOM, JAXB, Xalan, Xerces, blah blah).
There's no indication that XML and its offspring "technologies" are
"good enough" - yet no immediate sign of them going away. Unless, of
course, "good enough" applies to job security, in which case:
explanation complete.
The horror... the horror...
- erk
"Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those
wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages,
belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?"
- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Received on Thu May 18 2006 - 21:38:30 CEST