Re: Two recommendations: (1) Call it XSLT "program" (n

"Houghton,Andrew" <houghtoa@xxxxxxxx> writes:

>> From: Kendall Shaw [mailto:kshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 03:18 PM
>> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re:  Two recommendations: (1) Call it XSLT "program" (not
>> XSLT "stylesheet"), (2) stop treating XSLT as an acronym
>> 
>> XSLT is not a general purpose language. There are sometimes reasons to
>> make a distinction between languages like XSLT and languages like
>> Haskell, say.
>
> I thought the distinction were:
>
> Haskell = functional programming language
> Java    = general purpose programming language
> Logo    = domain specific programming language
> XSLT    = functional programming language

Well, as far as I can tell, Haskell is a general purpose functional
programming language.  A general purpose programming language is for
causing side-effects. XSLT is meant to be for transforming a specific
type of input to an output.

Kendall