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Очень умная тётенька Виктория Лившиц рассуждает о состоянии современного программирования и перспективах его.
Особенно мне понравилось, как она про XML и всю эту дрянь говорит:

The world has gone crazy with XML and then web services; SOAP and UDDI are getting enormous attention, and, yet, from a software engineering standpoint, they seem to me a setback rather then a step forward.
We now have a generation of young programmers who think of software in terms of square brackets. An enormous mess of XML documents that are now being created by enterprises at an alarming rate will be haunting our industry for decades. With all that excitement, no one seems to have the slightest interest in basic computer science.