Re: [Flightgear-devel] x++ The World's First XML-Based ProgrammingLanguage
On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 20:52, Norman Vine wrote: > FYI > http://xplusplus.sourceforge.net/index.htm Bring on the significant whitespace! > > > > > ___ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Tony Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- attributed to Linus Torvalds ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] x++ The World's First XML-Based ProgrammingLanguage
Jonathan Polley wrote: > Jon Berndt wrote: > > Just because something *can* be done doesn't mean it *should* be! > > Actually, I was going to say that it was another solution in search of > a problem. I honestly thought it was a joke, but the website looks serious enough to believe. Good grief. But it's not the first -- XSLT is a full XML-based programming language, thankfully tailored to a much smaller problem area. And XSLT is still a horrific monster, IMHO. I still remain dumbfounded at the number of otherwise bright people in this world that believe that needlessly gluing together two useful technologies results in improvement. What happened to encapsulation? It's not just for programs anymore. :) Andy -- Andrew J. RossNextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] x++ The World's First XML-Based ProgrammingLanguage
Andy Ross writes: > Jonathan Polley wrote: > > Jon Berndt wrote: > > > Just because something *can* be done doesn't mean it *should* be! > > > > Actually, I was going to say that it was another solution in search of > > a problem. > > I honestly thought it was a joke, but the website looks serious enough > to believe. Good grief. > > But it's not the first -- XSLT is a full XML-based programming > language, thankfully tailored to a much smaller problem area. And > XSLT is still a horrific monster, IMHO. > > I still remain dumbfounded at the number of otherwise bright people in > this world that believe that needlessly gluing together two useful > technologies results in improvement. What happened to encapsulation? > It's not just for programs anymore. :) The only thing I can possibly see is that they want to have some sort of gui point and click graphical visual programming thingy and then they can dump out the actual result as xml, but the developer would rarely if ever actually look at the xml Of course, that's just me trying to make sense of it. :-) Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] x++ The World's First XML-Based ProgrammingLanguage
Andy Ross writes: > I honestly thought it was a joke, but the website looks serious > enough to believe. Good grief. People have been proposing this kind of thing right from the start. > But it's not the first -- XSLT is a full XML-based programming > language, thankfully tailored to a much smaller problem area. And > XSLT is still a horrific monster, IMHO. Yes, but at least XSLT is mostly declarative, so it's in XML's problem area. Basically my rule is that markup languages are nouns and adjectives, while programming languages are verbs and adverbs. You use a markup language to describe information and programming languages to act on it. Note, however, that the excess has often gone the other way. Far too many programmers use code to define large amounts of data (consider especially the early AI work in LISP). All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
