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Subject: Re: [xsl] When to use text() From: Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:29:10 +0000 |
> I wouldn't be blaming the programmers for that. > > When you step back, it is clear from all the explanations given, that > the thing doesn't do what it says on the tin. > I think what Ihe is arguing for is that you should be able to read a program without reading its specification and guess correctly what it does. This can sometimes work if the language is sufficiently familiar to a language that you are familiar with. In all other cases, making such an assumption is dangerous and likely to lead you astray. People who are only familiar with one or two languages A and B often wonder why the language they are learning, X, is needlessly different from A and B. It doesn't occur to them that the designers of X might be familiar with dozens of languages, but have never encountered A or B. Michael Kay Saxonica
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