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RE: What does SOAP really add?

• To: "Paul Prescod" <paul@p...>,"Dave Winer" <dave@u...>
• Subject: RE: What does SOAP really add?
• From: "David LeBlanc" <whisper@o...>
• Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:18:29 -0700
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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It is rare that a parent will bash his own child :)

David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@p...]
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 13:54
> To: Dave Winer
> Cc: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  What does SOAP really add?
> 
> 
> Dave Winer wrote:
> > 
> > All that matters to me is if it worked, and it clearly did. 
> There were apps
> > written in most major programming environments that connected to Google
> > through the SOAP API within a matter of hours. No one reported 
> any interop
> > glitches. Could they have done it another way? Of course. So what. Dave
> 
> You didn't hear the XSLT programmers complaining about interop glitches
> because they were completely and totally shut out. A year ago Google had
> an API that was compatible both with FrontierScript AND with XSLT (to
> say nothing of XInclude, RDF and wget). It was also more efficient,
> simpler and easier to use to boot. In my opinion, that's "so what".
> 
>  Paul Prescod
> 
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