Cart
[Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries]
David Lee wrote: > I suggest you are contradicting yourself. > If it only 'takes 5 minutes' to write such a program in the general case > then why are there so many IT careers based on it ? Because there are a lot of 5-minute programs to be written, and most of the time you're not writing the program but talking to the stakeholders to work out what needs to be converted into what. > Please send me your 5 minute program that solves this problem in the general > case. > Or better yet, publish it so the world can use it, and put those armies of > IT people to use solving non-trivial problems instead of trivial ones. > > By 'solves' I suggest that as an axiom you have no control over *either* > side of the equation, the JSON OR the XML. So you must 'plug the hole' in > the middle, invisibly to either side. I would like to see this trivial > program that converts between an arbitrary JSON structure and an arbitrary > XML structure. I haven't claimed that such a program exists, and have even implied that it would not be desirable to do so ;)
[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] |
