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On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > It has come as a revelation to me that XML *with its assorted toolkit* is a > powerful programming aid for many applications. Yes! It's part of a shift away from Turing completeness and towards declarative programming. Curiously enough, it's been approached from two different angles by two different camps. The Web/Hypertext camp has, to my knowledge, had this vision for ages. But only recently has the distributed object camp been leaning in this direction. There's a project at PARC called "Aspect Oriented Programming", that's attempting to evolve component software to widen the scope of interface declarations (even beyond contracts). Basically, the many "aspects" of a typical program are separated out into a minimal Turing complete core, plus lots of declarative documents specifying such information as concurrency, data flow, compositional structure, etc..). All of this is run through a "weaver" to produce your end product. http://www.parc.xerox.com/spl/projects/aop/ You might also be interested in a paper that Adam Rifkin and Rohit Khare have submitted to WWW7; http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/papers/www/origin-of-species.html Since this is a little off-topic, I'd recommend that any followups be taken off-list. Then again, Peter did start it ... 8-) MB -- Mark Baker, Ottawa Ontario CANADA. Java, CORBA, XML, Beans http://www.iosphere.net/~markb distobj@a... ICQ:5100069 Will distribute business objects for food. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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