From: Stephen White <spwhite@...>
Date: 2001-02-24T04:14:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11406] Re: trial balloon: Ruby desktop?

On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Steve Tuckner wrote:

> 1. Store all application data as xml documents. One per object (Since ruby
> excels at text manipulation)

Just a brief side-track... but I'm seeing "XML" everywhere and I just don't
click onto why everyone's talking about it.

It seems to me that XML is a really weak SQL, with the difference that
anything is supposed to be able to parse it... but ends up with everyone
having to create and re-create a database in their code instead of just
using SQL or an external database.

I don't even grok why expat is 300k of C source to find <tags>, so that
gives you an idea how little I know...

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