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• Subject: RE: Interpreter for a subset of Knuth's MMIX in pure XSLT
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:08:06 -0500
• In-reply-to: <000001c2f868$35581f10$6401a8c0@pcukmka>

michael.h.kay@n... (Michael Kay) writes:
>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.

Isn't that the standard objection to using XML or XSLT in any context
whatsoever?

:-)
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Simon St.Laurent
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