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What about bob?
Man, that was funny!
Ten predictions (2004)
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Re: Ten predictions (2004)
#2821. XML databases will surpass relational databases in popularity by 2011. We got NoSQL (esp. JSON based ones) instead of XML. Close enough though. 2. Someone will make a lot of money by hosting open-source web applications. Github is cool but with all the cheapskate web devs (no offense, I am one of them) I don't think it is _that_ profitable. 3. Multi-threaded programming will fall out of favor by 2012. Not really.…
@friendly_chap: No surprise considering how shit Java is.
You must be a shitty developer for hating on Java. Didn't you read thru the article about how useful and awesome Java is. The worlds top websites, mobile apps heavily run on Java and JVM.
Re: Ten predictions (2004)
#2831. XML databases will surpass relational databases in popularity by 2011. We got NoSQL (esp. JSON based ones) instead of XML. Close enough though. 2. Someone will make a lot of money by hosting open-source web applications. Github is cool but with all the cheapskate web devs (no offense, I am one of them) I don't think it is _that_ profitable. 3. Multi-threaded programming will fall out of favor by 2012. Not really.…
> 9. Apple's laptop sales will exceed those of HP/Compaq, IBM, Dell and Gateway combined by 2010. No way, thanks God. If you count laptop+tablet sales, it may be close.
If you count laptop plus tablet sales and measure by profit share, it's not remotely close: Apple obliterates its competitors by that measure.
Re: Ten predictions (2004)
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1. JSON has an easy way to specify data types. In XML you have to have multiple nested tags. In JSON my document can be: {"mynumber" : 5, "mylist" : ["one", "two", "three"]} Simple, neat, and fits on one line. In XML this has to be 5 one two three Of course, I don't know what you're talking about "JSON doesn't even have a bloody date or time type" when XML doesn't have anything but strings. In order to parse this, I'…
You are a bit outdated, tooling is a bit better nowadays. Java integrates everything you need to parse and generate XML. Most API are XSD driven (either through annotation in the code, or with the mapping code generated from the XSD), so you get plenty of types like data, int, ... You also get streaming parser (pull or push) and DOM. Obviously, that is no longer plain XML, that is XML + XSD + Namespaces. The J2SE (no…
Somehow, that doesn't sound like an easy way to serialize and/or store a simple list of name-value pairs.
The S stands for simple... >
Re: Ten predictions (2004)
#2851. XML databases will surpass relational databases in popularity by 2011. We got NoSQL (esp. JSON based ones) instead of XML. Close enough though. 2. Someone will make a lot of money by hosting open-source web applications. Github is cool but with all the cheapskate web devs (no offense, I am one of them) I don't think it is _that_ profitable. 3. Multi-threaded programming will fall out of favor by 2012. Not really.…
> We got NoSQL (esp. JSON based ones) instead of XML. Thank god we dodged that bullet. I'm just glad people see XML for what it really is (useful, but not that useful). > Not really. We are already in the multicore age, and it will only get moreticore. The problem is multi-threaded has never really took off, even with all the cores we have today. There is still no silverbullet to harnessing parallelism. > Apple's lap…
>> We got NoSQL (esp. JSON based ones) instead of XML.
>Thank god we dodged that bullet. I'm just glad people see XML for what it really is (useful, but not that useful).
XML, JSON, MUMPS-storage are semantically equivalent.
XML is not about "".
Re: Ten predictions (2004)
#2861. XML databases will surpass relational databases in popularity by 2011. We got NoSQL (esp. JSON based ones) instead of XML. Close enough though. 2. Someone will make a lot of money by hosting open-source web applications. Github is cool but with all the cheapskate web devs (no offense, I am one of them) I don't think it is _that_ profitable. 3. Multi-threaded programming will fall out of favor by 2012. Not really.…
The XML things is quite amusing, given how far out of favour XML went. XML has now failed hard AFAICT. But I can agree the spirit of the prediction lives on in the form NoSQL and JSON.
XML is not about "" everywhere.
XML, JSON, MUMPS are semantically equivalent.
Re: Ten predictions (2004)
#2871. XML databases will surpass relational databases in popularity by 2011. We got NoSQL (esp. JSON based ones) instead of XML. Close enough though. 2. Someone will make a lot of money by hosting open-source web applications. Github is cool but with all the cheapskate web devs (no offense, I am one of them) I don't think it is _that_ profitable. 3. Multi-threaded programming will fall out of favor by 2012. Not really.…
JSON Databases have passed relational in popularity? I don't know that I believe that. Anyone know if there's a NoSQL/SQL market share comparison out there?
I honestly can't believe this comment is all the way down here. What a bubble we live in sometimes.
I'd be surprised if it was much above 1%.
Re: Ten predictions (2004)
#2881. XML databases will surpass relational databases in popularity by 2011. We got NoSQL (esp. JSON based ones) instead of XML. Close enough though. 2. Someone will make a lot of money by hosting open-source web applications. Github is cool but with all the cheapskate web devs (no offense, I am one of them) I don't think it is _that_ profitable. 3. Multi-threaded programming will fall out of favor by 2012. Not really.…
>5. Lisp will be in the top 10 most popular programming languages by 2010. This failed hard. I don't think it did. Lisp itself didn't become popular, but a lot of functional ideas are being implemented in more mainstream programming languages, and some functional languages are also becoming popular.
I don't think Lisp is a functional language like Haskell is. It's more of a language with no paradigm. You can do objects, you can do pure functions, you can write your own language easily. And the mainstream languages, like Java, C#, Ruby, Python have also been mixing up different paradigms. You have some kind of lambdas, maybe even closures. They rely heavily on objects and having mutability everywhere is still too common.
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JSON is basically XML with 50% less bullshit. I don't get this. XML has the capacity of being as simple as you want it to be. You don't need schemas, namespaces, xpath, and so on, and can make your XML life every bit as easy as JSON. In many ways easier given that JSON doesn't even have a bloody date or time type. But if you do want strong-type validation, schemas and namespaces are there for you. If you want an easy…
XML has a few issues compared to JSON: * attributes v. tagnames * no "anonymous list" * infinitely large surface area [ {name: joe, age: 12 }, {name: bob, age: 23} ] joe 12 bob 23 The access pattern for json is much easier: obj[1].name The infinitely large surface area of XML is painful. Namespaces, entities, xsd/schema, cdata, cdata-in-cdata. It's an alright data / interchange format and especially suited to certain…
{'users': [{'name': 'joe', 'age': '12' }, {'name': 'bob', 'age': '23'}]}
Re: Ten predictions (2004)
#2901. XML databases will surpass relational databases in popularity by 2011. We got NoSQL (esp. JSON based ones) instead of XML. Close enough though. 2. Someone will make a lot of money by hosting open-source web applications. Github is cool but with all the cheapskate web devs (no offense, I am one of them) I don't think it is _that_ profitable. 3. Multi-threaded programming will fall out of favor by 2012. Not really.…
> 5. Lisp will be in the top 10 most popular programming languages by 2010. This failed hard.
It peaked[1] in 2010 and is now settled on the 13th place, so I got to give him some credit for this prediction. If you include other dialects including newcomers such as Clojure, we might be talking at least close to the 10th most popular.
[1]: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Lisp.html