I just came across an article that announced Google open sourced their ‘Protocol buffers’ but decided NOT to use XML. They claim they could not use XML because ‘it isn’t going to be efficient enough for this scale’. WTF??? If this statement came from someone else, I would understand, but these guys are supposed to KNOW markup. Their solution is supposedly “20-100x faster” – which I refer to as “Lies, damned lies, and statistics”. I bet I could make XML run circles around their system just by simplifying their schema.

what happened to oreilly standards? recently, they seem to have a lot of clueless “contributors”.

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