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Interviewer: OK, one more thing for today. We're using Rock 5.1 to bang nails with. Have you used Rock 5.1?
Carpenter: [Turning white...] Well, I know a lot of carpenters are starting to use rocks to bang nails with since Craftsman bought a quarry, but you know, to be honest I've had more luck with my nailgun. Or a hammer, for that matter. I find I hit my fingers too much with the rock, and my other hand hurts because the rock is so big.
Interviewer: But other companies are using rocks. Are you saying rocks don't work?
Carpenter: No, I'm not saying rocks don't work, exactly, it's just that I think nail guns work better.
Interviewer: Well, our architects have all started using rocks, and they like it.
Carpenter: Well, sure they do, but I bang nails all day, and -- well, look, I need the work, so I'm definitely willing to use rocks if you want. I try to keep an open mind.
one more thing...if you're insinuating what it seems, then consider that what you call 'rock 5.1' is actually a standard that i've watched develop for the past 11 years since xmlhttprequest was first introduced! i was doing xml/xsl right in the browser with full xml based web services long before the terms ajax or rest were even a thought in someone's head! i was probably coding javascript before you knew what an array was, and i've coded on unix, linux, windows and using dozens of languages, from c++ to masm/tasm, perl, python, c#, visual basic, even 'cut my professional teeth' with ibm system/36 (not 360) with cobol, rpg, etc, and with almost every database imaginable and on sizes i'm confident you've never even seen (e.g. smallest datasets measured in tens of gigabytes) but what's happening on the web is unique and if you're thinking of the technology blend i mentioned as the latest 'rocks 5.1' then you are obviously in for a nice wake up call
