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> > At the end of the day code and data just aren't that much > like each other. Maybe this is why Lisp never took over the > world, cool though it is. -Tim > But if you have XML-tinted goggles on you can make anything look the same (:-) As is evidenced in the use of XML for: - Data (*any*ML, ...) - Meta-data (XML Schema, ...) - Protocol (SOAP, UDDI, ...) - Function interfaces (WSDL, XML-RPC, UDDI 2.0, ...) - Presentation (XSL-FO, XHTML, WML, XUL, ...) - Code (XSLT, XMLScript, ...) To top it off, we seem to be slowly backing our way into the Internet-variant of MVC (which is probably a good thing). A lot of this stuff goes back to Lisp and Smalltalk and things we've spent years trying so hard to forget... (:-) Ramin
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