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

People that are saying "XSLT is hard" generalize too much.

XSLT is hard the same way writing English text is hard -- for definite 
groups of people.

On the other side, XSLT is not hard at all, it is fun.

Just look at FXSL and see what can be accomplished with XSLT.

I agree that for people, who find it hard to think, XSLT will be really 
hard -- as it requires one to think.


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev

"Joe Kesselman" <keshlam-nospam@c...> wrote in message 
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> 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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