English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.
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The XML approach will provide the lingua franca for getting at various types of data it is providing a sort of structure for unstructured data, ... The question is how much of this unstructured data is going to be in XML. It will be a small part relative to the total amount of unstructured data that is in a company.
It is gratifying to note how scriptural words like justice, peace, forgiveness have become the lingua franca of the peace process,
Services are the present and future development trend for enterprise software. We've all agreed to speak the lingua franca of services. This is immensely important to customers just as HTML enabled the explosion of the Web, SOA is doing the same for business applications.