• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: The subsetting has begun
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:15:14 -0800
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 11:00 AM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> 
> 
> It's not as easy but it's still quite possible to take apart 
> a sort of but not really object-oriented program and explain 
> what making it object-oriented would look like, and again 
> there's a whole literature of explanations, from early 
> writings on OOP to Design Patterns to the current refactoring 
> discussions.
> 
> In XML, we don't really have such things. 

Yeah. But how long did it take us to go from the advent of OO to
practices like Refactoring and concepts like Design Patterns being
widespread. By my count it took over 2 decades. XML is only 5 years old,
we still have time. 

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