The reason XML has a bad rap is because it has been used for things like configuration files. XML was intended as a host/platform/language-agnostic data interchange format, not something humans would write by hand, much less have to read.
> On Feb 1, 2016, at 4:02 PM, Josh Tilles <merelyapseudo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As I’m watching Michael Drogalis’s Clojure/Conj 2015 presentation “Onyx: > Distributed Computing for Clojure” > <https://youtube.com/watch?v=YlfA8hFs2HY&t=734>, I'm distracted by a nagging > worry that we —as a community— are somehow falling into the same trap as the > those advocating XML in the early 2000s. That said, it's a very vague unease, > because I don’t know much about why the industry seems to have rejected XML > as “bad”; by the time I started programming professionally there was already > a consensus that XML sucked, and that libraries/frameworks that relied > heavily on XML configuration files were to be regarded with suspicion and/or > distaste. > > So, am I incorrect in seeing a similarity between the “data > code” mentality > and the rise of XML? Or, assuming there is a legitimate parallel, is it > perhaps unnecessary to be alarmed? Does the tendency to use edn instead of > XML sidestep everything that went wrong in the 2000s? Or is it the case that > the widespread backlash against XML threw a baby out with the bathwater, > forgetting the advantages of data over code? > > Cheers, > Josh > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > <http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
