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Re: why doesn't gimp use guile?
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Per Bothner |
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Re: why doesn't gimp use guile? |
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Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:44:13 -0800 |
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Alejandro Forero Cuervo wrote:
Okay, replace XML for XML-based languages in my post and read it again.
I'm sorry to have tought it was obvious that I was speaking about
XML-based languages rather than just XML The Format.
It's not obvious, because a lot of people have no idea what XML is.
My point is that MANY persons are using XML-based custom-made languages
That wouldn't surprise me. However, XSLT is the only one I know about
(i.e. in wide-spread use) that I would classifify as a programming
language ratherthan a data format.
I'm not so sure for configuration files (though I agree with you about
data). There are many situations where I think Scheme code would be
a lot better than XML, since you could "create" the actual data
dinamically. Take, for example, Apache's configuration. If it was
based in Scheme, you could have some code that generates your 2000
Virtual hosts dinamically as the file is read rather than having to keep
the list updated (or to invent yet another custom-made (XML-based or
not) extension language).
Even more often useful, I suspect, would be conditionals.
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--Per Bothner
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