(Dare Obasanjo) writes:
>> In XML, we don't really have such things.
>
>Yeah. But how long did it take us to go from the advent of OO to
>practices like Refactoring and concepts like Design Patterns being
>widespread. By my count it took over 2 decades. XML is only 5 years
>old, we still have time.
The RDBMS people started with them, largely building from the model
outward. I suspect it's fair to say that OOP started with them as well,
if you take SmallTalk and Lisp as the root of that tree and C++, Java,
etc. as latecomers.
There's still time, of course. There's always still time.
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