Re: [xsl] Programming languages for manipulating, transforming, and analyzing data

["Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Want to have a great set of tools in your toolbox for manipulating,
transforming, and analyzing data?
> Then master XSLT, XPath, AWK, and R.

What is notably missing in the proposed set of languages/tools is: Rx
(ReactiveX, Reactive Extensions).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactiveX

Rx provides a set of operators, using which an Observer may manipulate
asynchronously arriving events from any combination Observable streams
(that may be infinite in the direction from the past and into the future),
analyze, discover and react to found patterns of interest.

There are Rx implementations for almost all main programming languages, for
example RxJS. Rx.net, etc.

This site is greatly recommended: https://reactivex.io/

Thanks,
Dimitre.



On Wed, Jan 1, 2025 at 3:40b/AM Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> XSLT and XPath are great languages for manipulating and transforming
> data--provided the data is formatted as XML.
>
> For non-XML data, AWK is a great language.
>
> Neither XSLT, XPath nor AWK are good for statistical analysis of data--the
> R language (I've heard) is well-suited for this.
>
> Want to have a great set of tools in your toolbox for manipulating,
> transforming, and analyzing data? Then master XSLT, XPath, AWK, and R.
>
> I welcome your comments.
>
> /Roger
>
>
>

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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
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