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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeni Tennison [mailto:jeni@jenitennison.com]
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> Actually I did study Lisp as part of my AI studies (though a
> while ago now), so I do understand how elegant it is. I
> wasn't making a dig at Lisp at all, and I'm sorry if it came
> across that way and made you feel irked.
Not at all; IANA Lisp bigot, more of an admirer (I do think it's a very
good language to look at when you're designing other languages tho').
I'm more irked by the fact you and others have to go through the hoops
with XSLT/Xpath to get to where we were with another language decades
ago. It's something I don't get about this industry.
> I was trying to make
> the point that XPath isn't used in the same way as Lisp,
> because it works inside another language, so it shouldn't
> have all of the same functionality as Lisp.
Fair point, and one I hadn't considered.
> I'm arguing that it's better to have 10 functions operating
> on 1 data structure than to have 20 functions operating on 1
> data structure.
Good one :)
Bill de hÓra
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