• From: Peter Flynn <peter@s...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:07:08 +0100

On 26/06/18 13:12, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
[...]
> Unfortunately, XML blew its chance for broadening that conversation.

I'm not entirely sure that's true. Programmers certainly blew their
chances — XML was being pushed for circumstances unsuited to its
position in life, and programmers were dismayed to find that it wasn't a
programming language per se; that there was no compiler which produced a
binary executable. Don't forget this was in a time when markup was
largely a non-existent concept in most CS courses (still is in some
places), so when you explained that they shouldn't expect to be able to
execute a novel, you just got blank stares. Not entirely their fault:
they just want to be able to write programs, and unless those programs
were going to need to open up text documents, XML really wasn't a
candidate, and should not have been touted as one.

///Peter

• References:
  • use of JSON instead of XML
    • From: Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@g...>
  • Re: use of JSON instead of XML
    • From: Peter Flynn <peter@s...>
  • Re: use of JSON instead of XML
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
  • Re: use of JSON instead of XML
    • From: Patrick Durusau <patrick@d...>
  • Re: use of JSON instead of XML
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
  • Re: use of JSON instead of XML
    • From: Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@g...>
  • Re: use of JSON instead of XML
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>