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 > Dave Winer wrote: > > Please read this essay, written by Joel Spolsky: > > http://joel.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$133 > > "If you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. > Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create > these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe > that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all." > > This is what I was trying to say to anyone who would listen at WWW9. > (And on the Syndication mail list, and everywhere XML comes up.) The rest of Spolsky's article is about vaporware and FUD, not over-abstraction. That paragraph is an odd blip. Is he really saying that the idea of messages is an over-abstraction? This is pretty strange: packets are not an over-abstraction, JavaBeans are not an over-abstrction, why should XML messages be an over-abstraction necessarily? Criticizing a general, non-technical marketing blurb for being vague is futile. The pupose of those white-papers is so that barely-technical decision-makers outside MS feel confident that MS has a good plan and they are leading not reacting. It is like Lousiana Governor Huey Long's last compaign slogan "Vote for me, I'm not crazy". I have not read a "white-paper" from a large corporatoin that was not similarly insubstantial: they are not written for us. Rick Jelliffe 
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