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"Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...> wrote in message news:r01050400-1024-2014015B645C11D7B1500003937A08C2@[192.168.124.11]... > 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? There are other XSLT applications, which achieve good speed and are quite readable. For example, do have a look at the FXSL Calculator: "An XSL Calculator: The Math Modules of FXSL" http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/articles/xslCalculator/The%20FXSL%20Calculator.h tml There are a number of areas, in which the application of the functional programming library FXSL has been useful and some of these may seem a little bit exotic (numerical methods, text processing and spelling checking, random number generation, etc.): http://article.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.xsl.general.mulberrytech/8996/match= questions+xslt+philosophy ===== Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev. http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
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