• To: "'Michael Champion'" <michaelc.champion@g...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: XML-aware programming language?
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:29:10 -0000
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> "Tim Bray declared that to understand XSLT you must first reach up
> with both hands and grab the two halves of your brain peeling each
> back until you have successfully turned your brain completely inside
> out ...Are we all masochists???!!!" "
> 

The same was true, in my personal experience, of understanding goto-less
programming, relational calculus, and object-oriented programming. The fact
that something is conceptually very different from the way you have
programmed in the past is not, historically, a barrier to adoption, provided
that those who have made the journey are prepared to tell the world that it
was worthwhile.

Some people have reported that non-programmers, who still think that x=x+1
looks like nonsense, find the concepts much easier.


Michael Kay

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