Subject: Re: [xsl] Haskell programmer's rant about xslt From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:56:20 -0400 |
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. "
Yes, I suspect it's a complaint about precedence-based pattern matching; a technique with a long history in text processing, all the way back to Snobol, but one that makes some programmers uncomfortable because (as with decision tables or logic programming) they can't always predict what their own code will produce. Which is actually one of its strengths....
OP was probably upset by some badly designed XSLT code ha has to cope with it.
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