The most common argument for introducing YAPL goes like this:
"There are way too many programming languages out there. And they are each flawed in some way (small and odd, or large and incomprehensible). So I, in my wisdom and will create YAPL, which will displace all these other, inferior …
more ...The idea of "universal" processing via XSLT is moderately appealing. There's a big issue with poorly defined semantics, which always breaks a meta-data driven approache. The holy grail is perfect metadata from which all application software can be derived in a trivial way. I'm not sure this is ever achievable …
more ...From an email I got recently, lightly edited. Responses to follow
The data layer of application architecture must be flexible enough to adapt to virtually any new data-driven functional requirement demanded by today's client..right...well to support such adaptability in client deployments, the data model must allow almost …