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• Subject: Re: Interpreter for a subset of Knuth's MMIX in pure XSLT
• From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 12:23:01 -0500
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 17:03:15 +0100, Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@n...> 
wrote:


> What was the design objective for this program?
>
> If it was to be as unreadable as possible and as slow as possible at the
> same time, while still failing to produce correct results, then I think
> it has probably been achieved. I would think Don Knuth would be
> absolutely appalled.

Pay careful attention to the date :-)  I took it as Sean's annual 
springtime contribution to XML discourse.

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