"Houghton,Andrew" <houghtoa(_at_)oclc(_dot_)org> writes:
From: Kendall Shaw [mailto:kshaw(_at_)kendallshaw(_dot_)com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 03:18 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] 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
Well, as far as I can tell, Haskell is a general purpose functional
programming language. A general purpose programming language is for
causing side-effects. XSLT is meant to be for transforming a specific
type of input to an output.
Kendall
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