On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Graydon <graydon(_at_)marost(_dot_)ca> wrote:
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 08:22:53PM +0100, Ihe Onwuka scripsit:
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Andrew Welch
<andrew(_dot_)j(_dot_)welch(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
Lots of xslt is non-intuitive, but that doesn't mean it's
cumbersome... try doing the same task in any other language.
You are speaking as and to the cognoscenti only.
Does that mean I'm wrong?
Are they the only ones that use the language?
You can't make the solution simpler than the problem.
But you can make the solution more complicated than the problem.
Say I wanted to copy a directory structure but not carry over the
symbolic links.
I'd expect to be able to accomplish that by setting an option on my
copy command rather than having to implement a recursive shell script.
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