Re: Bob needs a new catchphrase

David Cressey wrote:
> "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 was inferring this in an old thread 'what I have learnt from databases' before it turned into an flaming exercise. The industry we are in is Information Technology - why is it so obsessed with the 'technology' part and so lacking in knowledge on 'Information' part? Tech fetishism I tell you. Received on Tue Oct 31 2006 - 13:57:13 CET