THE WHATIS.COM WORD-OF-THE-DAY January 21, 2003 X#
______________ TODAY'S SPONSOR: Free CRM whitepapers Download the key papers you need today to make better-informed decisions. Targeted categories include: Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, CRM Technology, Customer Service and Implementation, Integration and Business Processes... Click here to access the free SearchCRM.com white papers section. http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/whitepapers3/0,,sid11,00.html ______________ TODAY'S WORD: X# See our complete definition with hyperlinks at http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci875257,00.html X# is the name that has been given to a "data-centric" programming language that Microsoft is said to be developing in order to make it easier for a programmer to specify XML-defined data and how it should be handled by the program. Sometimes referred to as functional programming, a language like X# might allow a programmer who identified an XML document to write a language statement to address a particular data item by symbolic name and specify what to do with it. Reacting to the idea of such a data-centric language, some programmers believe that it would tend to undercut the value of object-oriented programming in which data is seen as an inherent characteristic of an object. In another view, the ability to address XML data fields directly could be done with special data-handling classes in C#, Microsoft's relatively new object-oriented language. X# is also likened to Microsoft's Visual FoxPro, a well-known relational database (table-oriented) language. However, X# would apparently allow a programmer not to have to map data to either an object or a database but to address and manipulate it directly as a named field in a given XML file. RELATED TERMS: XML http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci213404,00.html functional programming http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212168,00.html object-oriented programming http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid1_gci212681,00.html C# http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid1_gci333873,00.html Visual FoxPro http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid13_gci213705,00.html relational database http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid13_gci212885,00.html ______________________ SELECTED LINKS: SearchWebServices.com's Eric Parizo writes that "Users say an X# language could ease XML handling." http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci875142,00.html Sean McGrath, an expert on XML integration, explains why a language like X# is needed. http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci873910,00.html ______________________ QUIZ #3 | Storage Take our quiz and test your knowledge about how data is stored. http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci551320,00.html ______________________ Learning Path | Customer Relationship Management Give yourself a quick tutorial in customer relationship management (CRM) by reading our series of related definitions in sequence. http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid11_gci788453,00.html ______________________________ RECENT ADDITIONS AND UPDATES [1] speed of gravity http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci874815,00.html [2] double integral sign http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci874054,00.html [3] data source name http://searchvb.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid8_gci874018,00.html [4] systems thinking http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid19_gci874009,00.html [5] Advanced Planner and Optimizer http://searchsap.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid21_gci874121,00.html ____________________________________________________________________ ::::::::::::::::::: WHATIS.COM CONTACTS ::::::::::::::::::: LOWELL THING, Site Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ____________________________________________________________________ MARGARET ROUSE, Associate Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___________________________________________________________________ :::::::::::::::::::: ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER ::::::::::::::::::::: Published by TechTarget (http://www.techtarget.com) TechTarget - The Most Targeted IT Media Copyright 2003, All Rights Reserved. Unsubscribe from 'Word of the Day' - Simply Reply to this Email with REMOVE within the Body or Subject > or - Go to: http://WhatIs.techtarget.com/register - Log in to edit your profile. - Click on the link to Edit email subscriptions. - Uncheck the box next to the newsletter you wish to unsubscribe from. - When finished, click "Save Changes to My Profile."
