Ashley at Metamaxim wrote: >Now languages are ernormous. As well as the basic languages we have class >libraries, >frameworks, distributed component models, annotations, AOP etc. You could >spend >your whole life learning this and never raise your head above the language >level. >As a result, I think we have become very language-centric in our thinking >about >software engineering. > >Perhaps we are now too language-centric?
Yes, to XML language centric. Everything that is expressed in XML can be expressed more concisely and more directly. XML makes it easy to defer on design and architecture until the last minute. So everyone feels more productive. How much time to you spend diagnosing XML document content problems? How much time to you spend writing code to deal with XML document problems? Is that time any different than you would spend using any other data marshalling system? Gregg Wonderly ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/NhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
