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Dimitre Novatchev wrote: >From: > >http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/livschitz_qa.html > >"The world has gone crazy with XML and then web services; SOAP and UDDI are >getting enormous attention, and, yet, from a software engineering >standpoint, they seem to me a setback rather then a step forward. >We now have a generation of young programmers who think of software in terms >of square brackets. An enormous mess of XML documents that are now being >created by enterprises at an alarming rate will be haunting our industry for >decades. With all that excitement, no one seems to have the slightest >interest in basic computer science." > > > I had seen that too. I don't think she has twigged that XML, raised as a side-issue at the end of the article, could be helpful for the kind of problem she complains about earliers on: "subroutines, functions, data structures, loops, and other totally abstract constructs that neglect -- no, numb -- human intuition." XML can allow a more human-friendly representation of things: a dog has three legs or whatever. Cheers Rick
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