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Re: XML-aware programming language?

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• Subject: Re: XML-aware programming language?
• From: Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>
• Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 23:33:42 -0500
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On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 17:52:17 -0000, Michael Kay <mike@s...> wrote:
> >
> > Developers who prefer XSLT to
> > C#/Java/Perl/PHP/Python/Javascript are in the minority and at
> > best are a niche market.
> 
> Developers are a niche market.

http://www.xsltblog.com/archives/2004/12/could_it_be_tha.html may be
the last word on this topic: :-)

"Tim Bray declared that to understand XSLT you must first reach up
with both hands and grab the two halves of your brain peeling each
back until you have successfully turned your brain completely inside
out ...Are we all masochists???!!!" "

I'm pretty sure that masochists are a niche within a niche market,

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