Subject: Re: [xsl] recursive loop in XSL stylesheet is failing From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:58:05 -0400 |
I still think that variables are misnamed in XSL
the terminology matches all uses that I'm aware of including mathematics and fairly old computer languages such as lisp and newer functional languages such as ML, haskell, F#, etc.
When I was first shown programming (fortran and algol) in the 70's
a big deal was made that "variable" in those languages was a strange computer-related thing that didn't mean what you would expect it to mean and that x=x+1 was ok despite the fact that it was clearly nonsense in mathematics.
A few decades later and there seem to be people so exposed to this usage that they have convinced themselves that it is somehow natural:-)
Cheers, Wendell
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