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> -----Original Message----- > From: Jeni Tennison [mailto:jeni@j...] > > Actually I did study Lisp as part of my AI studies (though a > while ago now), so I do understand how elegant it is. I > wasn't making a dig at Lisp at all, and I'm sorry if it came > across that way and made you feel irked. Not at all; IANA Lisp bigot, more of an admirer (I do think it's a very good language to look at when you're designing other languages tho'). I'm more irked by the fact you and others have to go through the hoops with XSLT/Xpath to get to where we were with another language decades ago. It's something I don't get about this industry. > I was trying to make > the point that XPath isn't used in the same way as Lisp, > because it works inside another language, so it shouldn't > have all of the same functionality as Lisp. Fair point, and one I hadn't considered. > I'm arguing that it's better to have 10 functions operating > on 1 data structure than to have 20 functions operating on 1 > data structure. Good one :) Bill de hÓra
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