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Re: Future of Databases

• To: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>, Bill Lindsey <bill@b...>
• Subject: Re: Future of Databases
• From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:11:15 -0400
• In-reply-to: <3CC8E6DB.2090608@b...>

4/26/2002 1:34:19 AM, Bill Lindsey <bill@b...> wrote:

>At one point, our reference manual started with the
>epigraph: "Programmers who fail to learn the lessons
>of Lisp are doomed to reimplement it."  

That's an interesting thought ... Anyone want to 
speculate on what the "lessons of LISP" are for XML?

(This may seem horribly off-topic, but I have a sense
that XML and LISP are close cousins at the infoset level,
and clearly XSLT took a lot from DSSSL).

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