RE: [xml-dev] SGML complexity

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

> 
> About XSLT, it is interesting to take a look to September TPC index
> 
> [http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm]
> 

It's also interesting that "XSLT programming" gets three times as many hits
as "Haskell programming" on Google, yet XSLT is below Haskell in their
ranking. Something fishy there.

Also, a lot of people persist in calling it XSL; and a lot of XSLT
developers don't think of it as programming ("programming" is part of their
search term).

And it's not measuring popularity, it's measuring number of mentions. I hope
no language is in the list because everyone wants to say how much they hate
it, but you never know.

Whichever way you look at it, XSLT is ranked at about #50 in the list, which
makes it about the most "popular" special-purpose language in the ranking. 

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/