RE: [xml-dev] Feasibility of "do all application coding in the XML langu

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

> I agree that functional languages are quite useful. But I 
> think the problem is, many of the underlying hardware 
> architectures are von Neumann based. von Neumann machines 
> work best with imperatives programs (languages).

If we believed that we would all still be writing in Assembler, or at any
rate using GOTO statements.

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