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Hi,
On 4/16/2012 4:17 PM, Michael Kay wrote: Quote: "The fact that you can't know what any single line of code does without reviewing every other line in the program makes this language an abomination. " I agree. I was puzzled by this criticism. Surely it wasn't about the encapsulation of logic in templates, subroutines, or (gasp) functions. So is he unhappy about data-driven transformations? (Does he have a better idea for this class of problem?) Jirka, I think, is also on the mark: OP was probably upset by some badly designed XSLT code ha has to cope with it. Quite. If there were as many well-meaning but overhasty self-taught hackers writing Haskell as XSLT, there'd also be lots of bad Haskell around to complain about. But there aren't, so no one bothers to call it an "abomination" either. (Really, that word has no actual denotation at all in this context.) Cheers, Wendell -- ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================================
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