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Subject: Re: <quote>XSL is NOT easy</quote>
From: "M. David Peterson" <m.david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:53:50 -0600
Re:  <quote>XSL is NOT easy</quote>
On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:32:02 -0600, CyberSpace Industries 2000 Inc.
<csi2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So I think it is a compelling need to "write code" to solve any problem
that gets in the way.

Agreed. This is fairly typical behavior for us hacker types, a problem that is related more to our personality types than anything else (in my own opinion, we hacker types tend to be of the type in which we like to do things our own way)

Of course, if I were to pin-point a specific reason why imperative
programming has become the defacto-standard I would push the "blame" more
towards market-driven focus more than anything else.  In other words,
regardless of whether it's a CS dept. at a university, or whether it's
self taught, we are going to focus our studies on things that will make us
money, and in this regard, C/C++/VB/Java/etc. are clearly the market
leaders.  Of course you can't really blame poor architecture as the design
of a language is going to be based on something the target audience is
most easily going to grok, so what this really comes down is,

* Why is it easier to grok imperative instead of declarative techniques?

Is it because programming languages tend to derive from natural language
expression(imperative.  e.g. The color of the apple is red.) more so than
from math expression (x + y = z; if x = 2 and y = 3, then z = 5)?

--
/M:D

M. David Peterson
http://mdavid.name | http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2354 |
http://dev.aol.com/blog/3155

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