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Re: Sean McGrath hits a home run


sean mcgrath
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:52:03 -0800, Paul Prescod <paul@p...> wrote:


> Maybe the problem isn't with either the APIs or the protocols/formats. I propose 
> that one must choose: either the API is primary or the protocol/format is 
> primary. If you decide the API is primary then the wire format will tend 
> to be pretty ugly and hard to decipher. It will probably tend to degrade 
> over time because it "doesn't matter much." Try decoding IIOP ... or, 
> increasingly, SOAP to see this phenomenon in action.

That's an awfully good thought ... I'll have to think about it more ...

> I believe that it is impossible to optimize *both* API and data representation/protocol.

Reminds me of the  "syntax - data model duality" I've proposed ... sortof 
an uncertainty principle of formats vs APIs.  There's something deep here 
that I don't think software engineering has a good handle on right now.  
XML practice is OOP-ish in some ways, but antithetical to OOP in others.  
Paul has a bit about "Resource Oriented Programming" on his website, as I 
recall, which is useful.

Does someone with a better handle on recent developments in computer 
science or software engineering have a better answer, or compelling 
refutation to the assertion that we're in somewhat uncharted theoretical 
territory here?













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