Glenn Vanderburg posted an interesting anecdote on a mailing list we’re on a few weeks back, and I’m very happy to see it posted on his blog today. A great illustration of pragmatism trumping methodology. Give it a read.

It took some of us (e.g., me) longer to arrive at the party than others, but I thought there was now general consensus that XML makes for a poor programming language, with Ant being the vehicle by which most of us in the Java community learned that lesson. (I’d link to Duncan’s essay but am too lazy to find it since the original disappeared).

And now, Chris Anderson (the WPF architect at MSFT aka ChrisAn, not the Wired Magazine guy) thinks “XAML [is] a better C#“. I know Chris and respect him, but err… not quite sure where you’re going with this one, Chris.