XSLT, Perl, Haskell, & a word on language design

[Eray Ozkural (exa)]

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On Wednesday 16 January 2002 04:35, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:
>
>   The really bad thing is that the designers of XSLT [1.0]
>   made the language free of side effects but then failed to
>   include fundamental support for basic functional
>   programming idioms.
>

So, there are actually people who seriously take XSLT to be a programming 
language? Interesting, as I think it is just overdoing an already overdone 
concept (hint: it's a poor ascii tree).

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Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
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