Monday, August 5, 2002

A statement is not a conversation (XML.org) But then an interesting thing happened. The difference between a statement and a conversation dawned. No amount of beautifully crafted statements adds up to a conversation. A conversation requires ebb and flow, the passage of time, you need a dance.... To start with, various bodies just rolled their own conversation languages to get around the problem. They had to bite off all the age old nuggets of reliable messaging, sequencing, transactional integrity, and so on. All over the map, the same problem -- "the conversation problem" -- was solved over and over and over again. [IBM DeveloperWorks: XML News] 8:07:44 PM

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