>From: "Troy Laurin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 10:13 PM
>... >Unless the programmer is familiar with functional programming styles) - >being targets and dependencies. Actually, NAnt's style is mostly declarative, not functional. There's functional-style stuff happening under the hood, but that doesn't really affect understanding how build files are constructed. And that's what makes this difficult for people. Lots of people are exposed to functional programming in their one course that discussed LISP, but the only common example of a declarative syntax of this sort that comes to mind is the SQL SELECT statement - and that's really not very helpful when it comes to NAnt. Other declarative languages (e.g. HTML) are even less helpful. Gary ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ Nant-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users
