Re: XSLT Dead?

No 2 programming languages are similar and each one has to be
understood from it's own context - it can't be compared with another
programming language.

So really, it's the programmer who complains is not alive
and not the programming language ;-)

Rashmi Rubdi wrote:
>
> But no matter what posts people make the programming language / tool
> continues to grow and improve and doesn't die.
>

Of which there are two (three) main reasons:

  1. Each programming language has its own problem domain and people are
using it because it best fits the task

  2. Millions of lines of heritage code is not something you easily
throw away. But there is a tendency for some decennia now, that people
are extending there legacy systems with programs written in more
suitable languages, if needed. XML-related languages is one of those.

  3a. Education: you don't easily reprogram people, unfortunately, esp.
not when they don't like to be reprogrammed.

  3b. Education: not all people are capable of learning certain
languages, mostly because they are too abstract (XSLT) or too complex
(C++) which is why such groups of people often flame that "their"
language is way better/easier/faster than the other.

(partially borrowed from the Mythical Man Month, which is already from
1975!)

-- Abel Braaksma