RE: [xml-dev] Cranky old farts and the static typing critics (was Re: [xml-dev] Ten new XQuery, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Working Drafts)

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

By the way, you do realize that static typing is an optional feature of
XQuery that has it's own conformance level[0] as is support for
importing XSD schemas[1] ? 

[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/#id-static-typing
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/#id-schema-import

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> From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@xegesis.org] 
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 12:01 PM
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> > <Quote>
> > XML-DEV is a festival of cranky old men complaining about 
> the "youth 
> > of today" and how things were better in the XML world in 
> the old days.
> > </Quote>
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> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/05/08/FutureLanguage
> "there's some powerful intellectual ferment in progress out 
> there. This may be the golden age of programming, as Paul 
> Graham argues, and maybe everything we thought we knew about 
> strong typing is wrong."
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> Just who is a cranky old fart these days, the "XML is just 
> text, dammit" 
> SGML dinosaurs, or the "Static type checking will solve your 
> problems" 
> young turks?  As former young turk who is now a cranky old 
> dinosaur once put it back in the Dark Ages, "Don't speak too 
> soon, for the wheel's still in spin, and the times they are 
> a' changin."
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