I remember a meeting where a consultant from an MCP excitedly told our mutual client that the XP in the upcoming version of Windows stood for 'XML Protocol.'
More innocent times.
More innocent times.
Or it is a question that people who are not familiar with technology will ask frequently and makes no sense to people who are.
I had a family member ask "will bing work with my yahoo?"
So... I know those words individually, but... man... together, in that order... I don't know how to respond. I think I said something like "don't worry about it - it's not that big a deal" and left it at that.
The hype around Windows 95 at the time was... incredible. Midnight store openings, hours-long line waits... insanity.
I left one job for another in 1994 simply because the new company had access to the windows Chicago beta program (and it was a 20% salary bump). But the main reason for me choosing g that org was the beta, because I had other offers with similar salary bumps at the same time.
Apparently Philip Wadler was the person who told them needed it, because the future was XML.
( Walder is big Haskell/PL person)
An XML literal in Scala would have been:
// XML literals (to be dropped)
val mails1 = for (from, to, heading, body) <- todoList yield
<message>
<from>{from}</from><to>{to}</to>
<heading>{heading}</heading><body>{body}</body>
</message>
println(mails1)
// XML string interpolation
val mails2 = for (from, to, heading, body) <- todoList yield xml"""
<message>
<from>${from}</from><to>${to}</to>
<heading>${heading}</heading><body>${body}</body>
</message>"""
println(mails2)Around that time it was pretty nice passing around XML, as I was forced to work with VB.Net which also had an XML literal syntax on the backend and Flash/AS3 on the UI.
I had built a POC with E4X that was VERY similar to React/Redux over a decade before React, but the other browser vendors didn't have it... At the time IE and Chrome were shifting towards JSON.