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• Subject: RE: The subsetting has begun
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:26:46 -0500
• In-reply-to: <B885BEDCB3664E4AB1C72F1D85CB29F804B54D42@R...>

dareo@m... (Dare Obasanjo) writes:
>> 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.

The RDBMS people started with them, largely building from the model
outward.  I suspect it's fair to say that OOP started with them as well,
if you take SmallTalk and Lisp as the root of that tree and C++, Java,
etc. as latecomers.

There's still time, of course.  There's always still time.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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Errors, errors, all fall down!
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