On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Jim Melton <jim.melton@a...> wrote:

> Just putting my 2¢ in:
>
> Repeat after me: There. Are. No. Silver. Bullets.
>
> XML is a tool, nothing more.  A relational database is a tool, nothing
> more.  Fortran is a tool, Python is a tool, Perl is a tool, blah, blah,
> blah.  None of these will solve world hunger, nuclear proliferation, climate
> change, or the cost of car insurance.
>
> Those of us who have been in the data management industry for several
> decades certainly understand this, as do those of us (well, "you") who have
> been in product development for many years.  But the software biz seems to
> be one of those where every generation insists on its right to make the same
> mistakes we made 40 years ago instead of learning from our experimentation
> and making all new mistakes.
>

IMO this is a feature, not a bug.  And I'd see your 40 years and raise you
another 100 or so.

But then every generation likes to think the whipper-snappers are
vandalizing their illustrious inheritance.


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