RE: ARG asks Ada Community for API Proposals.

["Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com>]

From: Bob Leif
To: Simon Wright
" Ada and XML are similar huh?" 
I have sent in an article about this to Ada Letters. Very briefly, Ada
and XML both have enumerated types, begins and ends, and range checking.
XLM schemas are very similar to the Ada specifications without the
subprogram declarations. XML schemas import other schemas and
effectively rename with a prefix construct. 

The commercial success of XLM disproved most of the marketing arguments
against Ada. Ada is terse compared to XLM. The XLM languages have a
plethora of key words. XLM does not have C like syntax. However, XLM has
real marketing, which Ada never had.



-----Original Message-----
From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org
[mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org] On Behalf Of Simon Wright
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 1:03 PM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: ARG asks Ada Community for API Proposals.

"Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com> writes:

> As for the API, it should be based on XML. If we can not have one
> programming language, we should limit the number to two.

OK so far

>                                                          Ada and XML
are
> similar

huh?

>         and complement each other.

back to reality :-)