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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: XML-aware programming language?
 Exactly, that's why as a programmer I'd rather stick with the language I'm doing most of the application development with anyway (i.e. C#, Javascript, etc) as opposed to dealing with the [familiar] complexity of that language plus all the idiosyncracies of XQuery & XML Schema as well. -- PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take a shot at you, and miss. ________________________________ From: Daniela Florescu [mailto:dflorescu@m...] Sent: Wed 12/1/2004 11:01 PM To: Michael Champion Cc: xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: XML-aware programming language? As a programmer, I do not believe in that. XML Schema and XQuery are THAT big, and my brain is only THAT small. I cannot mentally handle BOTH C# and XML data models in the same time; two different kinds of strings, gazzilions of different kinds of numerics, all similar but DIFFERENT. My brain isn't big enough for that (and I don't see why it should be...) But you are right: there are many people that want to see XML natively supported in programming languages. It's the most natural thing, for me at least. > Anyway, I certainly agree that this is not at all a silly topic. Here are the main reasons why I believe that a new programming language that natively manipulates XML and it specially designed for Web Services will eventually emerge: 1) building Web Services today is a big pain. Unless we find a easier way to build them, they'll never catch on in large scale. 2) XML itself didn't catch on large scale yet either (see Jonathan's question about why young guys don't get excited by XML). My explanation to that is: because we cannot DO anything with it. Granted, we can query and transform using XSLT or XQuery, but you have to admit that you need a weird sense of humor to have fun querying and transforming. Programmers have fun programming. Or today, we cannot program with XML. Hence, no fun for most programmers with XML....only pain. The day when programmers will start having fun programming with XML, XML will really emerge. > It > would be interesting to hear from the other side ... Well, no answer yet..... :-) Best regards, Dana ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> 
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