On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Sam Tregar wrote:
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> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Adam Turoff wrote:
> Um, that's not what the article was talking about The proposal is to use
> an XML syntax to program in existing "VHLL" languages, including Perl.
> This would supposedly allow programmers to embed drawings as
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Dan Brian wrote:
> "program XSLT in XML"? What does that mean?
It means roughly what "program Perl in ASCII" means.
> Have you used XSLT? Do you understand what it is and what it does? It
> makes quite a bit of sense for those performing regular conversions
> from a single
At 03:55 PM 07-09-2001 -0400, Adam Turoff wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 03:48:27PM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote:
> > Why can't a general-purpose programming language be augmented with XML for
> > internal documentation purposes?
>
>You mean like C#? :-)
I wasn't specifically referring to that; I w
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 03:48:27PM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote:
> Why can't a general-purpose programming language be augmented with XML for
> internal documentation purposes?
You mean like C#? :-)
Z.
--- Dan Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Correct. The benefit is not as obvious as some seem to think.
> If the goal is format consistency, then what is gained by format
> consistency? It hardly means that you could translate one language
> to another, or have close interrelations between fu
At 03:07 PM 07-09-2001 -0400, Adam Turoff wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:36:17PM -0400, Sam Tregar wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Adam Turoff wrote:
> > > Don't laugh. It's here now. It's called XSLT. :-)
> >
> > Um, that's not what the article was talking about The proposal is to use
> >
> > Sure, program XSLT in XML. I guess that makes about as much sense as XSLT
> > is ever going to. My question is, if you think programming Perl in XML is
> > such a good idea, why not do it?
"program XSLT in XML"? What does that mean? Have you used XSLT? Do you
understand what it is and wha
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Adam Turoff wrote:
> Who said programming Perl in XML was a good idea?
Did you read the article I was responding to? I suggest you do.
Strangely, many people seem to believe XML is ideally suited to every
computing task known to man. This includes programming in Perl,
appar
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:36:17PM -0400, Sam Tregar wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Adam Turoff wrote:
> > Don't laugh. It's here now. It's called XSLT. :-)
>
> Um, that's not what the article was talking about The proposal is to use
> an XML syntax to program in existing "VHLL" languages, incl
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Adam Turoff wrote:
> Don't laugh. It's here now. It's called XSLT. :-)
Um, that's not what the article was talking about The proposal is to use
an XML syntax to program in existing "VHLL" languages, including Perl.
This would supposedly allow programmers to embed drawings
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:37:36PM -0400, Sam Tregar wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, ivan wrote:
>
> > http://www.ora.com/news/vhll_1299.html
>
> Fascinating article, but his point about XML source code struck my funny
> bone. I've certainly heard the argument be
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, ivan wrote:
> http://www.ora.com/news/vhll_1299.html
Fascinating article, but his point about XML source code struck my funny
bone. I've certainly heard the argument before - most recently in Dr.
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