jimfuller2014

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   by jimfuller2014 12y ago

   Perl did win, for a period of time .. expecting an interpreted language to dominate for multiple decades is unrealistic, especially with hardware advances that occur over time. while I don't do anything with it today, I do know Perl&#x
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   by jimfuller2014 12y ago

   yes, its a typical scenario ... XSLT is one of those languages where people either love it or hate it ... I think its to do with the fact that it takes a bit longer to become productive or useful in XSLT, most developers are expected to jus
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   by jimfuller2014 12y ago

   here here, XSLT v1.0 is severely limited and many of the idiosyncratic behaviour ppl associate with XSLT in general is because they hit some very hard to parse/understand/grok things in XSLT v1.0 I remember in 2001-2002 sending th
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   by jimfuller2014 12y ago

   there is an approach in xquery, which could easily be ported to js https://github.com/jpcs/transform.xq
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   by jimfuller2014 12y ago

   I can say with high confidence that I've probably written more XSLT then any of the commentators here ... respect completely their right to hate/love/ignore any tech, but many of the comments here are based on very little fac
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   by jimfuller2014 12y ago

   related to me by a drunk baker some evening many moons ago - 'sliced bread has more surface area, so goes stale faster; companies loved it because their bean counters found out that people ended up buying more bread for the perceived c