[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] The Rule of Least Power - does it miss the point?
After following the discussion on this list and elsewhere, I decided to blog on it: http://blogs.datadirect.com/jonathan_robie/2006/03/the_rule_of_lea_1.html I agree with all the basic goals of the Finding: * Simplicity * Predictability * Ease of analysis (for both computers and people) * Reuse of information * Security But the benefits this Finding claims for less powerful languages are actually benefits that just happen to be found in some languages that also just happen to be less powerful. But that does not mean the best way to achieve these goals is to use the least powerful language - there are languages that fail to deliver much power, but are also complex, hard to read, unpredictable, and dangerous. To me, the Finding seems to focus on optimizing the wrong thing. Jonathan -- Read my Blog: http://blogs.datadirect.com/jonathan_robie/ Learn XQuery: http://media.datadirect.com/download/docs/ddxquery/tutorial_query.html Learn XQJ (the JDBC for XQuery): http://www.datadirect.com/developer/xquery/topics/xqj_tutorial/ Get DataDirect XQuery: http://www.datadirect.com/products/xquery/
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