- From: Liam R. E. Quin <liam@fromoldbooks.org>
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:49:13 -0500
- To: public-xslt-40@w3.org
On Mon, 2020-11-30 at 17:24 +0100, Christian Grün wrote: > My experience is that people have indeed been hesitant to use HOF > features in the beginning. > > However, this has changed a lot over the years It may also be more common in XQuery than in XSLT, because XQuery tends to be further on the "programming language" side in terms of how people express themselves. On the other hand, even C had 2nd order functions, so e.g. you pass a pointer to a comparison function to qsort(), and callbacks are normal in GUI or event programming. A strength of the XML stack has always been that it lets people do advanced text processing even if they do not think of themselves as programmers; i don't see that going away. Liam -- Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: http://www.fromoldbooks.org
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