Most likely, IMHO, XML will be "supplemented" by a host of other higher level
languages. See
http://www.scriptics.com/products/connect/whyTcl.html
for a fairly good description of why you need a higher level language on top of XML.
Chris Thompson
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-----Original Message-----
From: David RR Webber [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 7:24 PM
To: Roy Roebuck
Cc: XML EDI Listserver (E-mail)
Subject: RE: XML as Programming Language??? Surely Not!
Message text written by "Roy Roebuck"
>You've provided a useful Programming Language feature definition
correlation with XML features.
If going strictly from standards, a Markup Language is a language, but it
is not a "Programming" language?<
>>>>>>>>>>>
Roy - for the record - the simple fact is that XML can be used to model
EITHER content and its metadata, or processes and processing steps (e.g.
SMIL).
Strictly Excel spreadsheets are 'programs', as is something like LET A=1+2
Whenever confronted by this is usually works to consider the different
gendre
of programming languages - byte code, assembly, low-level, high-level, 4GL,
5GL, Job Control and macros, hardware engineering logic, and now Markups -
to determine what the person really means by 'programming language'....
DW.
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