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Re: Re: Re: Incrementing a Global variable

Subject: Re: Re: Re: Incrementing a Global variable
From: Rajendra S Rawat <rajsrawat@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 02:25:53 -0700 (PDT)
Re:  Re: Re: Incrementing a Global variable
--- Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The ability to see where the boundaries are, and
> how to break a problem
> > into the easy and tough parts for this peculiar
> technology, are
> > higher-level skills that come only with
> experience.
> >
> > Nonetheless, I agree with others that the solution
> is not to try to turn
> > the language into something else. That would only
> make things worse.
> 
> I am deeply impressed with the fact that this is the
> first time in three
> years when someone in this group asks that XSLT be
> radically changed (killed
> actually), only due to his own lack of understanding
> and inability to solve
> even a simple problem.
> 
> 
> Let's make it clear: XSLT is side-effects free by
> definition. This is an
> *axiom*.
> 
> Whoever does not agree with the axioms may just
> select another
> programming-language system. In this concrete case I
> received an off-list
> email suggesting that the OP forgets about XSLT and
> uses FORTRAN.
> 
> Let's stop this thread -- we cannot turn Fortran
> programmers into XSLT
> programmers and they cannot turn us into Fortran
> programmers.
> 
> Or shall we allow people, who refuse to do their
> homework to continue to
> consume precious bandwith? This thread has stopped
> to contribute to the
> goals of the xsl-list -- let's move to something
> more interesting and
> useful.
> 
> 
> =====
> Cheers,
> 
> Dimitre Novatchev.
> http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
> 
> 
> 
> 
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