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Michael Kay said: >> > >> >> [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Haskell+programmi >> ng%22&btnG=Search] >> >> gives us 36,100 hits >> >> [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22XSLT+programming% >> 22&btnG=Search] >> >> gives us 17,800. >> >> i.e. 1/2 that of Haskell > > You put the search terms in quotes, e.g. "XSLT programming". > > If "XSLT" scores 3*"Haskell", while "XSLT programming" scores > 0.5*"Haskell programming", that is indeed interesting: it shows that > most people talking about XSLT don't think of it as programming. Let me paraphrase your own reasoning: If "XSLT [expletive deleted]" scores 2*"Haskell [expletive deleted]", that is indeed interesting: it shows that most people talking about XSLT think of it as [expletive deleted]. I do _not_ think that XSLT [expletive deleted] but I believe that other approaches as JS, PHP, and ASP, between others may be far more popular. > Which means that the site's assumptions are basically flawed. Too far conclusion. > After all, the words "program" and "programming" don't appear anywhere > in the XSLT 1.0 specification, whereas they appear more than 20 times in > the two-page introduction to the Haskell spec... Yes, still XSLT is thought as programing language in several sites, articles, and enciclopedias. Including the books "XSLT: Programmer's Reference" and "XSLT 2.0 Programmer's Reference" both from you. > I guess you can use statistics to prove anything you want to prove, and > since you seem to have a very negative attitude to most XML > technologies, I do not know from where you got my 'attitude' not how you measured the 'most'. XML has both strenghts and weakness. Moreover, I -contrary to you- am not intellectually (W3C XSLT 2 editor) or economically (Saxon) linked to XSLT. > it's not surprising that you should choose data that's > biased against them. Well, let me remember you that I remarked that differences between XSLT and Haskell are so small that probably the difference is not significative and probably XSLT was more popular than Haskell. However, a simple Amazon query proves that you find many more books on Maple than XSLT and that is also a kind of popularity index. However, I sincerely doubt that you can reject that larger TPC index of PHP or JavaScript over XSLT is an outcome of 'flawed' statistics or 'biased' data. > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/ Juan R. Center for CANONICAL |SCIENCE)
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