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RE: terra incognita

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• Subject: RE: terra incognita
• From: "Ramin Firoozye" <ramin@w...>
• Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:00:24 -0800
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• In-reply-to: <E16Fs1O-0002M3-00@s...>

>
> At the end of the day code and data just aren't that much
> like each other. Maybe this is why Lisp never took over the
> world, cool though it is.  -Tim
>

But if you have XML-tinted goggles on you can make anything look the same
(:-)
As is evidenced in the use of XML for:

- Data (*any*ML, ...)
- Meta-data (XML Schema, ...)
- Protocol (SOAP, UDDI, ...)
- Function interfaces (WSDL, XML-RPC, UDDI 2.0, ...)
- Presentation (XSL-FO, XHTML, WML, XUL, ...)
- Code (XSLT, XMLScript, ...)

To top it off, we seem to be slowly backing our way into the
Internet-variant of MVC (which is probably a good thing).

A lot of this stuff goes back to Lisp and Smalltalk and things we've spent
years trying so hard to forget... (:-)

Ramin

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