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Hi,
At 05:43 AM 2/3/2010, Ken wrote: It was a revelation to me working on a country-wide deployment of XML (the UBL standard in Denmark) when my client was informed that tens of thousands of Java developers wanted to look at the information only as filed-in data structures and not as XML. I don't know how that can be changed. I can't answer this question, but I think part of the problem has to do with the difference between a 3GL language like Java and a 4GL language like XSLT (if you accept this characterization). Given the difference, the choice can be seen as an either/or -- you use one approach or the other -- or as a both/and -- each approach has affordances and capabilities that make it appropriate for some subset of tasks, with an interesting grey area between where either could work and tradeoffs have to be considered, as well as, perhaps, a remainder where neither is a good fit. The problem is that these questions are rarely assessed from a point of view that isn't already biased one way or the other. People work with only partial information: they know only what they know. Also, we have trouble learning, not only because of emotional resistance or simple incapacity (old dog syndrome), but simply out of lack of time and energy to invest. Are there other 4GL languages complementary with Java, which Java programmers learn to rely on, and whose strategic and practical advantages they appreciate? Cheers, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================================
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