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• Subject: Re: Painful USA Today article (was RE: ANN: RESTTutorial)
• From: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 00:11:32 -0700
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"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote:
> 
> Our customers really don't know much about XML.  It is a
> checkbox.  Again, if they do that, say yes and take their
> money.  If they say "NENA spec'd ANI/ALI using the XML
> format", it is money for value.

This is a great way to get rich but an appalling way to design good
software. Microsoft made a mint doing it, but also left us with horribly
difficult and badly designed languages such as COM and VB.

You decide which one you want.  

-- Ron

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