http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2004/10/31/tim-bray-opposing-web-services/ Daniel Lemire's blog is about life in academia, research in Computer Science, wondering how we can reconcile fast databases and algorithms with the informal and asemantic nature of the world around us. It is broadcasted from Montreal (Canada). Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:20:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2004/10/31/tim-bray-opposing-web-services/#comment-275 Yuhong YAN Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:09:14 +0000 http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2004/10/31/tim-bray-opposing-web-services/#comment-275 It is easy to be an opposition, without providing alternative. He waits to see WS-* fail and then to claim he is the one foresee it. That is just a proof that He is a pessimist, and there is no other better solution to provide the same functions. Every good thing will be over-used and vulgarized by naïve people who believe new tools have all-powerful magic. You can see the same thing in academics. When a newly invented theory emerges, people use it everywhere and on all kind of problems. I saw Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, .. are like this. Now their trends went away. But they are important. It is easy to be an opposition, without providing alternative. He waits to see WS-* fail and then to claim he is the one foresee it. That is just a proof that He is a pessimist, and there is no other better solution to provide the same functions. Every good thing will be over-used and vulgarized by naïve people who believe new tools have all-powerful magic. You can see the same thing in academics. When a newly invented theory emerges, people use it everywhere and on all kind of problems. I saw Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, .. are like this. Now their trends went away. But they are important.

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