Re: Where we headed?

On 4.6.2013 2:40, Arved Sandstrom wrote:

> 1. Truth be told, since XSLT is declarative and works well in this
> space, I am convinced that an bettter FO formatter would actually be
> written in something like F# or Scheme or Haskell. 

RenderX in past tried to develop FO engine in Common Lisp:

http://www.renderx.com/tools/ditype.html

But it seems that product was never finished and put on sale.

> Quite frankly it
> would ideally be written in Prolog with constraint programming.

That would be really slow engine, I bet :-)

    Jirka

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