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Henry Luo wrote: > We may want to look at the history of high level programming languages. > The early languages like Fortran and Basic were not strong-typed. But as > C come out to be strong-typed, people realize the benefits, it helps > avoid mistakes in the code. Bad analogy: it's becoming more and more obvious that dynamically typed languages like Python are the wave of the future. C is statically but weakly typed. I do think the analogy has some relevance, though I'm not sure how much; but it actually suggests that we should avoid strong, static typing in XML; not that we should add it. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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