On Sunday 27 June 1999, at 14 h 0, the keyboard of Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know if I agree with that. If you are assuming a blank slate > w.r.t. DSSSL, you should also assume a blank slate w.r.t. Perl or > Java. The fact is, DSSSL is much easier than Perl. If you assume a blank state, may be. But you have already far more people who already program in Perl|Java|Python than in DSSSL. > an extremely powerful technique for document processing. Finally, I > agree with Stallman than Scheme is a nicer, easier, cleaner language > than pretty much anything out there. I know Scheme myself but it didn't help me for DSSSL which is difficult to grasp, even for a Scheme programmer. -- Stephane Bortzmeyer http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/ Tout est aléa, confusion et précarité, sauf le Catalogue. (Fred Vargas)
