> XML databases will surpass relational databases in popularity by 2011. What has happened to this idea? I guess Redis and friends solve the problem "Nobody li

> XML databases will surpass relational databases in popularity by 2011. What has happened to this idea? I guess Redis and friends solve the problem "Nobody likes to do O/R mapping". >5. Lisp will be in the top 10 most popular programming languages by 2010. Don't think this happened... But a few functional languages more or less made it into the mainstream: Clojure and F#