Re: [xsl] Word Ladders as an example of a "Find shortest path between two nodes in a graph" problem

[Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@xxxxxxxxx>]

Would you know, without comparison, where you stand with an XSLT
solution that (and I'm paraphrasing Michael Kay here) is rather opaque
to the programmer not knowing the innards of an implementation?

-W

On 07/12/2012, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> All this taken into account and if one finds XSLT as the more
>> convenient languge compared to C++, and if a split millisecond doesn't
>> matter, then I don't see anything wrong in writing such
>> implementations in a higher language such as XSLT and not in C++.
>
> Isn't the whole point to solve the problem using XSLT... this reminds
> me of the Sudoku challenge we did, I had numerous emails from people
> telling me about their 'better' non-XSLT solutions - completely
> missing the point.
>
>
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