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Subject: Re: Functional Language wasRE: [xsl] Re: declarative language, need for loops etc.
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:01:06 +0100

> I'm just quoting Phil Wadler, who recently (at the School of Advanced
> FP in Oxford, England, August) in his lecture about XQuery said that
> "XSLT is probably the most used functional language and the ugliest
> one".

Of course Phil W has come up with a brilliant plan to solve the problem of
XSLT being the most ugly: Devise XML Query which will easily take that
particular burden from XSLT...

So Dimitre were you here in Oxford in the summer? You could have come
and said hello!

David


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