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On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Peter Coppens <pc.subscriptions@g...> wrote: > Could it be there is some confusion between the quality and intelligence of > the engineer(s) who indeed so successfully proof how one can do very many > beautiful things in an XML only world and the usability of the XML > development ecosystems for those with more typical development talents and > educational backgrounds living in worlds outside of xml-dev ? It is (fortunately!) not very well defined what we mean by "typical development talents". In the era of Fortran programming this was based on GoTo - based programming. Then came "Structured Programming", then OOP and we are even witnessing gradual trend of increased interest towards Functional Programming. It should be no great surprize when in the not so distant future any major programming language might require the programmer to specify to the compiler for any instance of code, for which the compiler cannot itself prove it, that this code in fact does not have side effects, as Haskell does even today with its "unsafePerformIO" function. -- Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev --------------------------------------- Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. --------------------------------------- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk ------------------------------------- Never fight an inanimate object ------------------------------------- You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play
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