January 18, 2005

When I think of "Legacy" I think Fortran and Cobol, not XML, XSLT, and Javascript

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And of course you should be familiar with all the legacy internet technologies, such as HTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript and be good C#/VB/Net developer.

Isn't the term "Legacy" generally reserved for systems that are being phased out?

Ok, I can see the day that HTML is replaced by SVG, XUL, and XAML. Actually, I can see Atom, RSS(especially RDF), and other XML Syndication formats taking more and more of HTML's glory as we move further into a dynamic web structure where we define how we want the information formatted and by what markup language and interface. But then again I also think that Dynamic HTML, XHTML and CSS combined with Javascript and XSLT make an extremely powerful combination and we are going to see these technologies used together more and more rather than less and less. So in reality I can't see the day that HTML in one form or another doesn't take a commanding presence amongst the GUI markup technologies of the future.

I guess there's nothing really here to cry foul over but this isn't the first time I have seen this term used to describe technologies that, while competitors are in place, are not going away anytime soon and in fact will see more use in the future rather than less which, again, is generally the time I would think using "Legacy" would be appropriate. Just general ramblings, don't mind me... ;)