Madeline Schnapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A few other observations from the XML world.
>
> Our Java and XML book is selling way way way beyond our expectations. I
> have been told that Perl support for XML is middling at best although I
> have no personal experience to support this claim. IBM has put a big stake
> in the ground around Java and XML in their e-commerce efforts. A small
> company that used Perl exclusively to convert document formats to XML for
> electronic publishing threw in the towel and is now using Java.
An observation could be that organisations need to have a job done,
and choose whatever tool (modulo hype and other marketing factors)
that does the job best. When organisations needed CGI jobs, Perl did a
better job at CGI scripts than shell and C, and people massively
started to use Perl. Apparently, what the world wants now is XML and
Perl is not the best tool around for XML jobs. So it could be less
a Java versus Perl issue than a "what tool suits my current problem
best".
-- Johan
