Re: ITP: xslj, a XSL processor (XSL is one of the stylesheet format of XML)
On Sunday 27 June 1999, at 14 h 0, the keyboard of Adam Di Carlo
<adam@onshore.com> wrote:
> I don't know if I agree with that. If you are assuming a blank slate
> w.r.t. DSSSL, you should also assume a blank slate w.r.t. Perl or
> Java. The fact is, DSSSL is much easier than Perl.
If you assume a blank state, may be. But you have already far more people who
already program in Perl|Java|Python than in DSSSL.
> an extremely powerful technique for document processing. Finally, I
> agree with Stallman than Scheme is a nicer, easier, cleaner language
> than pretty much anything out there.
I know Scheme myself but it didn't help me for DSSSL which is difficult to
grasp, even for a Scheme programmer.
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