XmL.
June 6th, 2008
XML is ‘the’ all general-purpose tool for any developer. Just about any development software uses xml and it is available with wide variety of uses. Many things go into building software and along with a few essentials: good music, good team, and a great environment.
Advantages of xml are: supports Unicode, data tabular, ‘SOAP’ entity friendly, it’s an international document, good for SDK’s, also integrated with many development environments… …and it rocks. Having precision problems with comma delimited files? Try going with xml. Need just a local database, try XML. Easy to compress, encrypt and send in an email.
Thanks for making it this far! How did XML come around? Fairly sure no fireflies were to be found when this thing showed up downtown. ?!? Somewhere between Hendrix and or the Snow song some of the Sili-icon or Chip-icon people in the far far away Land of Oz Valley in the later 90’s understood that the some sort of formatting needed to be done in order for the web to work. These eleven peeps are known as the ‘The raiders of the Lost SGML”. Seriously, these people were listening to some good tunes and low in behold XML. Accurate facts can be found here at wiki.
