Apropos of yesterday's blog entries (XML: Unix Pipe or ASM? and WS-* vs. REST/POX: Revenge of Worse is Better): the always interesting Peter Coffee paints a picture of how WS-* approaches to SOA lead to success. Contrast with Brian Marick's \<a href="http://www.knowing.net/ct.ashx?id=c6662b33-b934-4107-be6e-2061bcd4d735&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.testing.com%2fcgi-bin%2fblog%2f2006%2f06%2f06%23three-ages"" target=_blank rel="noopener noreferrer">Three Ages of Programming blog entry.