Re: Market Penetration of FP and Haskell

1999-03-04 Thread Philip Wadler
"S. Alexander Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, if they are making sure that all platforms have a scheme interpreter, > why not make the spec language agnostic. i.e. allow the user to use any > language that can be compiled/translated into scheme (by code written in > scheme?). Your a

Re: Market Penetration of FP and Haskell

1999-03-03 Thread S. Alexander Jacobson
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Philip Wadler wrote: > Bad news: The proposal to split XSL refers to the current working > draft, which already contains a transformation language (Section 2) > and a style language (Section 3). Preliminary versions of the > transformation language are already in wide use (inc

Re: Market Penetration of FP and Haskell

1999-03-02 Thread Philip Wadler
"S. Alexander Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is a campaign going on to separate XSL (eXtensible style > language) into two separate languages > 1. a transformation language > 2. a style language > > I suggest that now is the opportunity to make a convincing case that the > transfo

Market Penetration of FP and Haskell

1999-03-02 Thread S. Alexander Jacobson
There is a campaign going on to separate XSL (eXtensible style language) into two separate languages 1. a transformation language 2. a style language I suggest that now is the opportunity to make a convincing case that the transformational language should be a functional programming language. HoF