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Tim Bray On The Origin Of XML

Posted by Zonk on from the makes-feed-users-happy dept.

gManZboy writes "Queue just posted an interview with XML co-inventor Tim Bray (currently at Sun Microsystems). Interestingly enough the interviewer is none other than database pioneer Jim Gray (currently at Microsoft). Among other things, in their discussion Tim reveals where the idea for XML actually came from: Tim's work on the OED at Waterloo."

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  1. XML blows by ZeekWatson · · Score: 0, Troll

    XML sucks ... too verbose for humans and too ambiguous for machines.

    One day we'll look back and laugh!

  2. Re:Intra-vendor XML is (usually) stupid by CondeZer0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    > Then you are not using XML right.
    Oh, I have heard this same argument so many times... I still have to see _anyone_ "using XML right".

    > For one the format shouldn't be changing much
    You really should read The Mythical Man-Month; change is in the essence of software development.

    > Converting two thousand numbers to text should take 50 microseconds at the most.
    Yes, but what about parsing two thousand XML elements, building their DOM and then going thru it?(and SAX is not much better, not to mention much more limited). If you haven't realized yet the insane overhead of XML parsing you have never had to use XML in any serious production environment.

    At risk of repeating myself:

    "The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well." -- Phil Wadler

    --
    "When in doubt, use brute force." Ken Thompson
  3. Fucking retarded mods ... fuck off by ZeekWatson · · Score: 0, Troll

    What fucking retard modded this to a troll?