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On Thursday 17 January 2002 12:44 am, Ronald Bourret wrote: > The problem with that sort of person is not the hype around XML or > anything else. It's that they believe there is a silver bullet at > all. You could tell them your product is a text editor and they'd > see an industrial strength publishing system. Granted, marketing > people often supply the ammunition, but those sorts of wounds are > self-inflicted. Very true... but this happens time and again. People often don't realize that the choice to use XML is the tip of the iceberg. I think trivialising the problems, and giving XML magic qualities is giving people rope to hang themselves with. > A lot of it also has to do with simplicity, both perceived and > actual. S-expressions are not simple, at least not to the man on the > street. And XML is? S-expressions are probably easier to write tools for, and as descriptive as XML. Of course, XML wins because the tools already exist... > > That said, well-developed > > applications of XML *are* better than almost anything > > else....especially in terms of flexibility/evolution. I've been > > preaching that cautiously optimistic message for a long time... > > And the silver bullet folks are taking another one between the eyes I must admit to being guilty of a little hyping in the past. Still, I've also usually been able to deliver on the promise.
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