Re: [Boost-docs] The beauty of LATEX

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] The beauty of LATEX
From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-22 10:17:55

On 10/22/2011 5:07 PM, Daniel James wrote:
> On 21 October 2011 21:23, Dave Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> on Fri Oct 21 2011, Daniel James <dnljms-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> That might be extended to say 'A programming language in a markup
>>> language is nonsense'. The problem is that in most languages things
>>> are symbols by default, in a markup language things are text by
>>> default, so using one as a programming language requires nearly
>>> everything to be annotated as 'not text' which becomes verbose.
>>
>> I don't think that's really the problem.  We have lots of examples of
>> programming languages in markup languages that work out pretty well, for
>> example, PHP and LaTeX.  They're certainly not nonsense.
> 
> 'Nonsense' was Joel's word, I don't think XSL is nonsense. As I said,
> "it's great for some XML transformations". On the right occasion it
> can even be elegant but on the wrong occasion.... Maybe icky would
> have been a more appropriate word.

My exact words: "A programming language in XML is nonesense!"
And I stand by it. There's just too much noise to be useful.
For that matter, no one should be coding in raw XML anyway.

Regards,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
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