Re: Where we headed?

On 06/04/2013 10:01 AM, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> 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
>
Yeah, it would. :-) I've done CLP with a couple of flavours of Prolog, 
notably SWI-Prolog, but it's never been fast code.

But theoretically it's a nice idea.

Arved

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