• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:22:04 -0500

On 2/18/11 8:24 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> XML has enabled (facilitated) a two-thousand-times increase in _______. (Please fill in the blank)
 >
 > ...
>
> JSON has enabled (facilitated) a hundred-times increase in _______. (Please fill in the blank)

XML's long-term contribution isn't that it solved data exchange 
problems.  It's that it made it possible for people to believe those 
problems could be addressed on some useful level.

JSON just follows that up by addressing a subset of those problems in 
another mostly useful way.

Both of these effects are primarily social rather than computational.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/

• Follow-Ups:
  • Re: XML has enabled the exponential progress of _______(fill in the blank)
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>

• References:
  • XML has enabled the exponential progress of _______ (fill in theblank)
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>