Re: [xml-dev] RE: Declarative programming requires a different mindset

[David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>]

On 29/03/2010 16:10, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:

 > Functional programming is another name for this. See the paper, "Why 
Functional Programming Matters" 
http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html.
 >


which reminds me, I gave a talk back in 2001  at the first (only) XSLT 
UK conference based in part on that paper. I couldn't find the slides to 
that just now, but Jeni made a report of the conference including bits 
of my talk, although she mainly highlighted another useful reference 
work in this area:


http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/04/25/xsltuk.html


"Is it hard?"

"Not if you have the right attitudes. It's having the right attitudes 
that's hard."

"Oh."

     [Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]

David




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