On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Ihe Onwuka
<ihe(_dot_)onwuka(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
but Graydon ...the problem here is "hello world"....
Here's Alan Kay http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Kay
Somewhere on that page is the quotation
"Simple things should be simple complex things should be possible"
But XSLT's Hello World is simple (albeit verbose):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
Hello World
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
We are not talking about a simple problem that is hard.
Ihr, I believe the discussion of the specific topic of "text()" has
dominated a conversation that---on its face---purports to be of a
general sort.
Could you please give some examples unrelated to "text()" that
illustrate design problems of the type you are describing?
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dislodged easily, and the less it is understood, the more tenaciously
it is held." - Cantor's Law of Preservation of Ignorance.
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