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I chuckled at: > If you help build something important and impactful, call it X, it's easy to slip into year after year of being the world’s greatest expert on
by niftich 10y ago
I chuckled at:
> If you help build something important and impactful, call it X, it's easy to slip into year after year of being the world’s greatest expert on X, and when X isn't important and impactful any more, you're in a bad place.
He, of course, was co-author of the XML spec.
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- SwellJoe 10y agoGosling, who he quotes at the top of the article, worked on NeWS, a primary competitor to X. And, I imagine he knows plenty of people who literally worked on X, since he worked at multiple major UNIX vendors during that period.
- cpr 10y agoX is also Java in Gosling's case. ;-)
- DonHopkins 10y agoAnd X is also Emacs [1] and Andrew [2] in Gosling's case. ;-) For Tim Bray, X is short for XML. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosling_Emacs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosling_Emacs [2] https://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2009/November/nov5_goslingreflectsonjava.shtml https://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2009/November/nov5_goslingr...
- cpr 10y ago"X" could also be Java in Gosling's case. ;-)
- otterley 10y agoXML is still used all over the place; it's not exactly one foot in the grave.
- bryanrasmussen 10y agoYeah, but the common XML stack of technologies doesn't show up in job announcements anymore. (XSLT, XSD). Often people are maintaining code that is built on top of XML.
- flukus 10y ago99% of advertised jobs with XSL, XSDT, UML, etc never actually required them for day to day work.
- nikatwork 10y agoXML is still huge in corp land. In Healthcare, HL7 is gradually moving to an XML version. SOAP is everywhere, JSON is not. Horses for courses.
- dhd415 10y agoGetting somewhat far afield of the OP, but in healthcare, the bigger trend seems to be a move from HL7v2 past the dumpster fire that was XML-based HL7v3 to JSON-based FHIR.
- flukus 10y agoThey'll turn json into a dumpster fire to, it's just tradition at this point. I think xml with it's great validation and inter-operability is still the best choice for something like HL7 though.
- yread 10y agoI just used XSLT for user edited SVG sanitization (whitelisting of elements and attributes) and I'm still in a shock how easy was it. I'll miss XML
- gaius 10y agoWas it JWZ who said, the problem XML solves is not hard, and XML solves it badly?
- DonHopkins 10y agoBut not as generically badly as SGML!
- gohrt 10y agoDidn't he say something about how it's just a job for regular expressions ;-)