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Greg Hunt <greg@firmansyah.com> writes: > This list seems to have gone the way I remember the patterns mailing lists going. Â Apart from > announcements, the signal to noise ratio of this list is declining sharply and on-topic, > non-announcement messages are now days apart. Â > > Perhaps this particular thread ought to be elsewhere? Â It stopped being primarily about XML (if it > ever was) some time ago. Â The notion of basing a program on an XML document type is related to declarative programming, so I think the thread is on topic. Declarative programming is fundamental to XML and generalized markup. For example, the WWW platform is based on declarative programming, where instead of programmers needing to write code that places characters at specific coordinates, there is an XML document type that describes the structure of the page, such that the most powerful constructs in the program are declarative constructs in an HTML document. As for describing mappings between input and output, that seems closer to a description of functional programming than declarative programming. Kendall
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