Re: Programming is not as much fun/more fun than it used to be.

From: Dan Tex1 (dantex1_at_aol.com)
Date: 04/30/04 

Date: 30 Apr 2004 02:12:58 GMT

From: eventhelix@hotmail.com (EventHelix.com)

>Well prepare for the next round of changes. Programming is going
>to become more and more declarative. As I see it there will be
>two types of programmers:
>
>- Persons that specialise in the declarative aspects of applications.
> These persons will have skills in HTML/XML etc. Microsoft has something
> called XAML that falls into this category.

When did HTML become programming?
I don't know much about XML, but.. isn't it just much more advanced HTML?

When I make a Microsoft Word document look pretty with interesting fonts and
highlighting and such... I certainly don't call that programming.

Can you write a program in XML that emulates a calculator? If so... maybe
doing XML is programming. So... unless you can truly write distrubutable
software programs in XML... that leaves us with just one type of programmer...
That would be the same type we've always had.

Dan :-)

>- Conventional programming with languages like C, C++, Java, C# etc.
>
>Sandeep

Relevant Pages

  • =?ISO-8859-1?Q?spinoza_progress_report=2C_and=2C_Le_Canard_Inf=E2me?=
    ... I am testing the xmlparser because I need to parse XML and don't like ... because an aporia I see in programming languages is the absence of the ... difference between the Monster Source Program that Ate Tokyo, ...
    (comp.programming)
  • Re: Nature of XML (ramblings)
    ... > HTML as a programming languages, but recently I have written a lot of ... The fact that the SQL and HTML may be in quotes inside ... Ada is such a thing whereas SQL, XML and HTML are not. ...
    (comp.lang.ada)
  • Re: Dynamic v Static and SEO
    ... > I am trying to run a business and not split hairs about programming ... Programming is my business ... XML is just a bunch of characters that follow some rules. ... Googlebot really cares if you decide to make h1 red with a blue ...
    (alt.internet.search-engines)
  • Re: XML Comment Screwed - Possibly a bug in VB??
    ... It is an easy to use programming language for people like me who want to put together applications quickly that access databases and produce reports without bogging the programmer down too deeply in what is really going on under the hood. ... What you probably wish for is a message that tells you what it really is that you are trying to do and how to do it, but that is impossible as the compiler can not guess what is on your mind. ... An ampersand is certainly allowed in an XML comment, but it has a special meaning. ...
    (microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb)
  • [Active Tags] Have the RefleX !
    ... People that are intersting in native XML programming can download the RefleX engine freely here: ... RefleX is a Java tool that allows people that have no particular knowledge of Java to write smart programs entirely in XML; however, the most brave fellows could also design their own tags and plug them to the ... The concepts of native XML programming used in RefleX have been designed separately, so that other implementations on other platforms/languages can be considered. ... Despite the intrinsic verbosity of XML, the expressiveness of XPath (which is used intensively in Active Tags) and the ability to declare complex processes exposed as simple tags makes Active Tags programs very efficient. ...
    (comp.lang.java.programmer)