- From: Steve Schafer <steve@fenestra.com>
- Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 12:59:36 -0500
- To: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Cc: SVG List <www-svg@w3.org>
TOn Sat, 01 Dec 2012 11:34:05 +0000, you wrote: >SVG's origins tend to be more in terms of declarative languages, whereas >Postscript is procedural. That's certainly true, but it's perfectly feasible to embed powerful computational functionality into a declarative framework. Declarative constraint programming is a pretty natural fit with a language whose principal output is visual, for example. On the other hand, I will freely admit that most people seem to have a very difficult time wrapping their heads around complex relationships that are expressed declaratively rather than imperatively, so I don't know how well it would all work, practically speaking. On the other other hand, I do sometimes find it frustrating that SVG is so limited computationally. -SteVe Schafer
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