Re: [xsl] XSLT is a pattern-action language. So is AWK. What others?

["russurquhart1@xxxxxxxxxxx russurquhart1@xxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 I love Snobol/Spitbol and have used it from my college days to the present
for text processing of non-xml files. I love it and am so confortable with
using it. As I learned Snobol before GREP was available, I never go into
Regular expression very much.
I'm not sure what you mean that there are no syntax errors in Snobol. When I
first started learning it, and every so often now, I can generate a syntax
error. for example, forget to close a quote character around a string, etc
that'll generate an error, or did you mean something else?
Thanks,
Russ
    On Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 06:48:30 AM CST, Michael Kay
michaelkay90@xxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:




What I hated about SNOBOL (in 1979? 1978?) was that there was no such thing as
a syntax error.B 
Regular expressions seem to have inherited that tradition.
Michael KaySaxonicaXSL-List info and archiveEasyUnsubscribe(by email)