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> many developers always had issues understanding the FP approach of its design, looking beyond the XML. It would probably help if xslt was not a god-awful lan
by masklinn 1y ago
> many developers always had issues understanding the FP approach of its design, looking beyond the XML.
It would probably help if xslt was not a god-awful language even before it was expressed via an even worse syntax.
- pjmlp 1y agoThe root cause is that many failed to grasp XML isn't to be manually written by hand on vi, rather it is a tool oriented format. Now ironically, we have to reach for tooling to work around the design flaws of json and yaml.
- masklinn 1y ago> The root cause is that many failed to grasp XML isn't to be manually written by hand on vi, rather it is a tool oriented format. That reads like an indictment of using XML for a programming language. Not that it has anything to do with the semantics of XSLT.
- pjmlp 1y agoI don't see why separate both. XML is tooling based, and there have been plenty of tools to write XSLT on, including debugging and processing example fragments, naturally not something vi crowd ever became aware of amid their complaints.