Re: What kind of industry do you mean? (Was: [Caml-list] objective caml and industry)

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

Am 2002.09.02 14:43 schrieb(en) Alessandro Baretta:

> BTW, I'd gladly give up XSLT and SQL if, respectively, we
> had a pseudo-official XML transformation API for Ocaml, and

What do you mean with "pseudo-official"?

A remark as developer of free software: One of the advantages
is that I can do what I want, nobody forces me to develop in a
certain way, or direction. Free software is basically software 
without standards. Industry needs standards to make their
products interchangeable, but this is not a key point for free
software, because you have the sources, and you have some
control over them. PostgreSQL is the best example for this;
originally it did not support SQL, but had some unique features
other DBMS did not have. As a user you get the benefits of the
freedom of the developers, but at the price of lacking secondary
virtues such as standard-conformance.

Why don't we have a generally accepted XML transformation API?
It would not be very much work to develop such an API, and to
do a prototype for an implementation. I suppose that auch an
API is not really needed, at least now.

> there were Caml server-side bindings with PostgreSQL. In the
> first place, I'd be able to statically typecheck my XML
> transformation code. In the second place, I'd be able to
> write type safe queries in such complex contexts where
> baseline SQL is insufficent and the generality of pl/pgSQL
> is needed.

Gerd
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