Re: Bob needs a new catchphrase

"paul c" <toledobythesea_at_dbms.yuc> wrote in message news:yUz1h.225498$1T2.162721_at_pd7urf2no...
> Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> > Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > ...
> > What gets me is how could people think that
> > <quantity>6</quantity>
> > and the like are anywhere near sane.
> > ...
>
> Apart from that, why enforce hierarchy (not really my question, many
> others asked it first), a very discredited approach. But those two
> effects were enough for me to want to write xml off, as all the touted
> advantages I read of had to either with programmability using
> self-styled OO languages or readability. So from the start, I assumed
> both so-called advantages (free of context and capable of database
> importance at the same time) were not real, just some kind of in-joke.
> The noise about xml that persists almost ten years later makes we wonder
> if there was a deep fundamental point about that I've been missing all
> this time. My personal, perhaps wrong theory is the authors were
> hackers of the most deprecated kind, the ones who take a very narrow
> view and try to magnify it into a global context. I'm sure they had
> some inspiration and I don't want to disparage that as it is one of our
> most rare and important abilities to have but it is nothing without
> discipline.

I honestly think that this phenomenon, and others like it, keep occuring because most people learn programming before they learn data management. Perhaps in some future generation, people will learn the fundamentals of data before they learn how to write code. Received on Tue Oct 31 2006 - 12:00:17 CET