Jürgen Kahrs wrote:
> Yes, "a different approach", that's _hard_.
> Honestly, most developers learn one language when they
> are young, and everything differing from this language
> is _hard_ to understand for them.

Hm. Maybe I was lucky; my education focused on "learning how to learn" 
and included exposure to a variety of languages using different syntax 
and metaphors.

I really don't agree that it's hard. It just requires exposure to a few 
new concepts and a bit of practice. Admittedly, some folks resist both.

> In most courses on software development, recursion is
> non-existant, because it only scares humble newbies.

I respectfully disagree that any course which doesn't cover recursion is 
a class on "software development". It's a basic programming technique, 
used in all languages when you have nontrivial problems to solve.

The problem here may be that serious XSLT is real programming, not 
script hacking.

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