• To: John Cowan <cowan@m...>,xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: Elliotte Rusty Harold on Web Services
• From: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
• Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:38:02 +0000
• In-reply-to: <E18iFkn-0004TO-00@m...>
• References: <E18iFkn-0004TO-00@m...>

On Monday 10 February 2003 15:21, John Cowan wrote:
> Alaric B. Snell scripsit:
> > I'm concerned that people think it's normal for protocols, languages, and
> > so on to be used for things they were never designed for.
> >
> > Because it will only be by luck or by hacks that it will be as good as
> > those tasks as things that were *designed* for them.
>
> Call it luck or hacks if you will, but generalized solutions consistently
> have specialized ones for lunch. 

That's not what I'm arguing against - I'm arguing against specialized 
solutions being hacked into generalized ones.

Much rather design them to be general in the first case.

"Practical extraction and reporting language" - no more!

"HyperText Transfer Protocol" -  no more!

"Simple Object Access Protocol" - no more!

ABS

-- 
A city is like a large, complex, rabbit
 - ARP

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