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Good. So all is not darkness and Orcs waiting in the bushes to strike. Despite all the whining and other expressive thoughts, we actually are a lot further ahead these days in interoperability, scalability, and portable long lived data than we were ten years ago. Maybe that is the one good thing about living through CALS, HyTime, image-based hypermedia, and the early word procesors: we do have a measure of how much this has all improved. Two favs in the MS toolkit are the SAX writer and reader tools. Hiding the syntax nasties helps sell the API. Showing those to our developers is how I got them to finally consider DOM alternatives. So, some en*thrall*ment ain't always a bad thing. Too much and we lose the very thing we got into markup for: platform independence of information. Too little and we lose the developers who would like to get to dinner before it gets cold. len -----Original Message----- From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@t...] At 11:12 AM 11/01/02 -0600, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: >All that aside, do you think the CLR notion has >the technical merit that it deserves a second >implementation? Looks good to me, & most people I talk to, including James Clark. In fact the API is not very much different from the standard Java classes, which despite our whining are actually not too bad by & large. -Tim
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