-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 05 February 2002 12:29, Dimitre Novatchev wrote: > > 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). > > Yes, there are such people. Actually, all the examples from John > Hughes' article "Why functional programming matters" can be implemented > in XSLT 1.0, as shown in the recently published article: > > "The Functional Programming Language XSLT" at > http://www.topxml.com/xsl/articles/fp >
It's nice to know about the computational power and expressive capabilities of a formal system ;) On the other hand, the examples in the article did not strike me as programs written in a programming language. They seemed to me more like an inefficient way of describing some programs. It is of course a proof of concept type of argument in the paper I assume. I think I can implement some functional concepts using templates in C++, but would that pass as a functional programming language? Besides, I thought two of the primary design goals for a programming language were readability and writability. In my opinion, XSLT lacks at least those two due to its XML syntax. Keep functional, - -- Eray Ozkural (exa) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 iD8DBQE8ZJ7qfAeuFodNU5wRAktzAJ0ZNpZlYwGDzquUHbWM6o9DHyBiHwCcDkAu aLAIs00zoLi3GELLC7iuixk= =MMI0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
