Subject: Re: Language choice (was: Re: Interactive XML) From: Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:57:10 -0500 |
Michael Kay wrote: > > And that is an even sadder joke. XML was designed for > marking-up documents, not for defining the syntax of > programming languages (even declarative ones). > > Give me F(X) rather than > <FUNCTION><NAME>F</NAME><ARGUMENT>X</ARGUMENT></FUNCTION> > any day of the week. Although XSL has a programming language component, it is not primarily a programming language. If it were, it would be just a variant of ECMAScript, but clearly it is much more than that. XSL is primarily a stylesheet language, and XML seems to do a good job of expressing the declarative parts of that language. Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco Three things trust above all else: Your knowledge of your craft That someone turns a profit, and that you will get the shaft http://www.geezjan.org/humor/computers/threes.html XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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