> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:39:55 -0700
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: kplug-list@kernel-panic.org
> Subject: XML quote to sigs
>
> I've felt for some time that XML has become the hot flash du jour, being
> used entirely too much for tasks already better solved, perhaps because
> it's "New and Shiny" (TM). I mean, XML as a back-end database ... come ON!
>
> So when a certified programming genius slanders XML, I am SO there!
>
> # from Cameron Laird's weekly Tcl newsletter, 6/13/08
> QOTW: "The annoying bit is that XML tends to be a hammer finding
> fingers." - Donal K. Fellows
>
I've always called XML "The emperor's new clothes of IT". There's a lot of
hype about it and its supposed to work miracles- but it doesn't actually do
anything. Its a file format and you can buy a parser. But parsing has been a
solved problem since yacc and lex. The hard thing is interpreting the tokens
afterwards, which XML doesn't do a thing for. So it really doesn't do anything.
Gabe
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