- From: Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca>
- Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:06:29 -0300
- To: public-ppl@w3.org
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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