Dave Winer wrote:
>
> All that matters to me is if it worked, and it clearly did. There were apps
> written in most major programming environments that connected to Google
> through the SOAP API within a matter of hours. No one reported any interop
> glitches. Could they have done it another way? Of course. So what. Dave
You didn't hear the XSLT programmers complaining about interop glitches
because they were completely and totally shut out. A year ago Google had
an API that was compatible both with FrontierScript AND with XSLT (to
say nothing of XInclude, RDF and wget). It was also more efficient,
simpler and easier to use to boot. In my opinion, that's "so what".
Paul Prescod
