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Re: The 11-pound solution to your XML problems

• To: Adam Turoff <ziggy@p...>
• Subject: Re: The 11-pound solution to your XML problems
• From: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
• Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:44:45 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <20020912170513.GC19558@p...>
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On Thursday 12 September 2002 18:05, Adam Turoff wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:22:35PM +0100, Alaric B. Snell wrote:
> > I can't lose the feeling that something here is terribly, drastically,
> > wrong here. Nobody ever made an XDR (eXternal Data Representation, not
> > the other one) accelerator, an ASN.1 BER accelerator, or anything like
> > that.
>
> Nobody ever made XDR or ASN.1 a household word, either.

Exactly; this is also evidence of something terribly, drastically, wrong 
here. When people come to me saying "I want something to solve my business 
problem... and I want XML in it!" it's like somebody saying "I want you to 
build me a car... and I want you to use 5mm diameter bolts to assemble it!"

> > This is crazy!
> > Something's wrong!
>
> Yep.  Someone left the keys to the webserver on the table and the
> marketing guys found them.

:-)

> Z.

ABS

-- 
A city is like a large, complex, rabbit
 - ARP

• References:
  • Re: The 11-pound solution to your XML problems
    • From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
  • Re: The 11-pound solution to your XML problems
    • From: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
  • Re: The 11-pound solution to your XML problems
    • From: Adam Turoff <ziggy@p...>

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