Re:
> Because it _might_ be the great, stable and matura language for
> storing and querying data of tomorrow......
I think not. XML is a standard being pushed by a few big
corporations, but lacks serious grassroots development, or even
adequate support from recent browser versions.
PHP, on the other hand, has major grassroots support, allows greater
database connectivity than Perl can do, and does not require any
browser plug-ins to work.
You can't believe all the hype.
On 27 Feb 2001, at 2:10, Florian G. Pflug wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 06:50:27PM -0600, Cal Evans wrote:
> > How is this superior to SQL? Why replace a great, stable and mature
> > language for querying databases with a verbose one?
>
>
>
> By your logic, why even replace traditional files (i mean those
> consisting of _real_ paper) with this computer crap?
>
> And why use PHP/Perl/Phyton instead of great, stable and matura C?
>
> Why do OO-Programming? Procedural programming is much more matura?
>
> >
> > Also, a database IS a huge archive of structured data. :)
> The kind of structure that an table (essentially n-tuples of values)
> can represent is not nearly as powerfull as an XML-Tree.....
>
> Greetings, Florian Pflug
>
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