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Re: [xml-dev] Interpreter for a subset of Knuth's MMIX in pure XSLT

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Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Interpreter for a subset of Knuth's MMIX in pure XSLT
From: Mike Champion <mc@xegesis.org>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 12:23:01 -0500
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 17:03:15 +0100, Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com> 
wrote:


> What was the design objective for this program?
>
> If it was to be as unreadable as possible and as slow as possible at the
> same time, while still failing to produce correct results, then I think
> it has probably been achieved. I would think Don Knuth would be
> absolutely appalled.

Pay careful attention to the date :-)  I took it as Sean's annual 
springtime contribution to XML discourse.

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