I'll paraphrase the argument as "Blub doesn't include an XML parser therefore Blub is rubbish."
Open source used to have a similar issue regarding Microsoft Word documents: "Open source operating systems were rubbish because there wasn't any software to read and write Word documents." Now that such functionality is available, the argument moves to another feature such as boot time or support for native applications.
Let's imagine that we have an open source operating system that runs all games, boots in 10 seconds, works with 6000 random devices and comes installed with a terse language which fetches web pages, parses XML, talks to 20 databases and Java applications. How much of this functionality will be of any consequence in 10 years?
I think your paraphrasing is incomplete. It would be truer to the op's point to say, "Blub does not include an XML parser, therefore Blub is rubbish for exploratory programming with XML documents."
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I'll paraphrase the argument as "Blub doesn't include an XML parser therefore Blub is rubbish."
Open source used to have a similar issue regarding Microsoft Word documents: "Open source operating systems were rubbish because there wasn't any software to read and write Word documents." Now that such functionality is available, the argument moves to another feature such as boot time or support for native applications.
Let's imagine that we have an open source operating system that runs all games, boots in 10 seconds, works with 6000 random devices and comes installed with a terse language which fetches web pages, parses XML, talks to 20 databases and Java applications. How much of this functionality will be of any consequence in 10 years?
I think your paraphrasing is incomplete. It would be truer to the op's point to say, "Blub does not include an XML parser, therefore Blub is rubbish for exploratory programming with XML documents."