This article on Kuro5hin should be of interest: http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/1/15/1562/95011 As a text snippet to provoke you to actually follow the link, I have chosen, The really bad thing is that the designers of XSLT [1.0] made the language free of side effects but then failed to include fundamental support for basic functional programming idioms. Cheers, Manuel
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 January 2002 04:35, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:
The really bad thing is that the designers of XSLT [1.0] made the language free of side effects but then failed to include fundamental support for basic functional programming idioms.
So, there are actually people who seriously take XSLT to be a programming language? Interesting, as I think it is just overdoing an already overdone concept (hint: it's a poor ascii tree). - -- Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr> Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8RRYcfAeuFodNU5wRAuhfAJ9hOQpjlwKbceIatD46o4iBp124agCfTolp hQf6BnNqM0ftMz1zvmv7qjw= =SXQM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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