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

Subject: RE: Two recommendations: (1) Call it XSLT "program" (not XSLT "stylesheet"), (2) stop treating XSLT as an acronym
From: "Houghton,Andrew" <houghtoa@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 15:35:28 -0400
RE:  Two recommendations: (1) Call it XSLT "program" (n
> 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

References
 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_programming>
 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language>
 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_programming_language>


Andy.

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