• To: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@m...>
• Subject: Re: XML-aware programming language?
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 12:06:00 -0500
• Cc: Daniela Florescu <dflorescu@m...>, Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>, xml-dev@l...
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Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> Exactly, that's why as a programmer I'd rather stick with the
> language I'm doing most of the application development with anyway
> (i.e. C#, Javascript, etc) as opposed to dealing with the [familiar]
> complexity of that language plus all the idiosyncracies of XQuery &
> XML Schema as well.

Hi Dare,

For the examples I've compared, I wind up writing about 4 times as much 
code using that approach, and it definitely takes more time to write and 
maintain that code.

But you're right - there is a paradigm shift in learning to think in 
XQuery and native XML. Not everyone will make that paradigm shift.

And programmers don't always use the most efficient tool for a job. I 
once wrote a multiprocessing monitor in Minnesota Fortran...

Jonathan

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