Subject: Re: [xsl] Haskell programmer's rant about xslt From: Jirka Kosek <jirka@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:19:28 +0200 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 16.4.2012 21:58, Max Toro wrote: > Quote: "The fact that you can't know what any single line of code > does without reviewing every other line in the program makes this > language an abomination. " > > I've heard this more than once, but don't understand exactly the > issue. Perhaps related to the notion that adding a new template > might affect the behavior of other templates, specially if not > using a mode. Maybe, OP means that in Haskell many algorithms can be expressed in very few lines -- of course those lines would be completely unreadable by programmer used to XSLT or conventional programming language. OP was probably upset by some badly designed XSLT code ha has to cope with it. It was junt rant, take it easy. Jirka - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@xxxxxxxx http://xmlguru.cz - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Professional XML consulting and training services DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing - ------------------------------------------------------------------ OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 member - ------------------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+MftAACgkQzwmSw7n0dR5E8QCcDqErXnmsMCyyV71aZXaBF/Sh TR8Anjal8qvawdNmzO2oZrSPSxMcDemX =FyXi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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