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So what do you do when you have to process XML ? Dana On Dec 1, 2004, at 11:57 PM, Dare Obasanjo wrote: > Exactly, that's why as a programmer I'd rather stick with the language > I'm doing most of the application development with anyway (i.e. C#, > Javascript, etc) as opposed to dealing with the [familiar] complexity > of that language plus all the idiosyncracies of XQuery & XML Schema as > well. > > -- > PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM > There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take a shot at > you, and miss. > > ________________________________ > > From: Daniela Florescu [mailto:dflorescu@m...] > Sent: Wed 12/1/2004 11:01 PM > To: Michael Champion > Cc: xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: XML-aware programming language? > > > As a programmer, I do not believe in that. > XML Schema and XQuery are THAT big, and my brain is only THAT small. > I cannot mentally handle BOTH C# and XML data models in the same > time; two different kinds of strings, gazzilions of different kinds of > numerics, > all similar but DIFFERENT. My brain isn't big enough for that (and I > don't see > why it should be...) > > But you are right: there are many people that want to see XML natively > supported in programming languages. It's the most natural thing, for me > at > least. > > >> Anyway, I certainly agree that this is not at all a silly topic. > > Here are the main reasons why I believe that a new programming language > that natively > manipulates XML and it specially designed for Web Services will > eventually > emerge: > > 1) building Web Services today is a big pain. Unless we find a easier > way to build them, > they'll never catch on in large scale. > > 2) XML itself didn't catch on large scale yet either (see Jonathan's > question about why young > guys don't get excited by XML). My explanation to that is: because we > cannot DO anything > with it. Granted, we can query and transform using XSLT or XQuery, but > you have to admit > that you need a weird sense of humor to have fun querying and > transforming. Programmers > have fun programming. Or today, we cannot program with XML. Hence, no > fun for most > programmers with XML....only pain. > > The day when programmers will start having fun programming with XML, > XML will really > emerge. > >> It >> would be interesting to hear from the other side ... > > Well, no answer yet..... :-) > > Best regards, > Dana > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > > >
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