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Perl? Maintainability? Nah. Having maintained a Perl package of 20000 lines for Source Code config mgt (no C or other bits involved), I would have to disagree. I don't see XSLT doing the same job. Don't talk to me about CPAN and module hell - that's just a swamp of random code and has nothing to do with maintainablity. As for Purpose, Perl "is a language for getting your job done" (perl 5, ed 2). Just which job is that then? Text processing seems to be a minor part of it's scope. Maybe "scope" is one of the differences - the Perl/Python scope of action is that much larger. The most obvious diff is that XSLT has tags but Python/Perl hasn't. I suspect if you tried to write a SCCM system in XSLT, I wouldn't rate yr chances for understandability, or even of surviving very long as a sane person. David Tolpin <dvd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent by: cc: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: XSLT vs Perl rrytech.com 03/02/2004 13:11 Please respond to xsl-list > > > Xslt has been designed as a language with a purpose; It was designed as a language with a purpose. > perl has neither of these attributes, hence perl's chaotic nature and > unmaintainabilty. Same about perl and almost the same purpose. What about maintainability, look at CPAN. Can XSLT dream about this volume of maintainable and usable code? > But I > think, as well, it's a matter of apples and pears. An XSLT application > would, IMO, also include Java or some other language. Perl fills in any gap > it can gets it's paws on, A perl application typically includes code written in C, Java and other languages, if needed. > but I'd rather use python if push came to shove. What's the difference between Python and XSLT 2.0? David Tolpin http://davidashen.net/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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