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Re: limits of the generic

• To: Ann Navarro <ann@w...>
• Subject: Re: limits of the generic
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 14:23:26 -0600
• Cc: Jeni Tennison <jeni@j...>, Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Ann Navarro <ann@w...> of "Sat, 28 Sep 2002 12:23:11 EDT." <4.3.1.2.20020928122043.02e7eec0@m...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> At 01:33 PM 9/28/2002 +0100, Jeni Tennison wrote:
> 
> >However baroque, it has to be said that the rules made XPath 1.0 very
> >easy to use. It may seem baroque to implementers, who have to delve
> >into the details, but to users XPath 1.0 appears to "just work". The
> >same cannot be said of XPath 2.0.
> 
> I think this is something forgotten in many of the arguments and 
> development cycles of recent technologies. The implementers are far fewer 
> than the users. Ease of implementation, IMO, should take a back seat to 
> ease of use. That something may take a software developer a few extra hours 
> is no reason to make it harder for the author every document produced using 
> that technology.

I certainly agree with this in principle.  As a developer I have never 
complained about difficult implementation that genuinely makes life easier for 
the user.  But I've often found that this is a false distinction.  IN my 
experience there is a strong correlation between ease of use and easo of 
implementation.


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Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
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Apache 2.0 API - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-apache/
Python&XML column: Tour of Python/XML - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/18/py.html
Python/Web Services column: xmlrpclib - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-pyth10.html 

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