- From: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 07:57:21 +0100
- To: Tony Graham <tgraham@mentea.net>
- Cc: public-ppl@w3.org
On 4 June 2013 19:31, Tony Graham <tgraham@mentea.net> wrote: > On Tue, June 4, 2013 2:01 pm, 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. > > Back in the early 1990s, Uniscope had a transformation language for SGML > written in Scheme and a Scheme preprocessor and TeX macros for formatting. Joe Armstrong uses \tex for his formatting, so I guess he understands the suitability of Erlang for this job? He looked at FO and rejected it. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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