use Perl

• When XSLT Is Too Compact (Score:1)

  by mdxi (4658)

  And no one is impressed with your httpd/roman numeral calculator, turn to Sun for even more ridiculously verbose and convoluted solutions to problems you never had in the first place.
• Haven't We Learned Our Lesson? (Score:2)

  by Ovid (2709)

  XML is a fantastic tool, but trying to beat all problems into submission with it is simply ridiculous. What on earth is Sun trying to solve with XPRESS (with they describe as a "scripting language") that requires the verbosity of XML?
• Torturing users to benefit the implementers. (Score:2)

  by schwern (1528)

  The (false) laziest language designers and implementers in the world? "Grammar? Parser? Eh, just use XML." To paraphrase Matt Robinson [livejournal.com], whenever a programmer thinks 'I'll just use XML' their computer's speakers should create some sort of cock-shaped soundwave and plunge it repeatedly through their skulls.

  Patrick quoted Larry Wall in his Perl 6 talk to the effect that language designers torment language implementers to the benefit of the users. This would appear to be the opposite.
• Tell Me About It...? (Score:2)

  by ajt (2546)

  This week I'm on a SAP training course learning their XI/PI middleware application. It's built on a mixture of their legacy ABAP (COBOL like) technology and all new Java code. Internally the whole middleware engine uses a proprietary form of SOAP to send messages along their system. It's little more than XSLT with bells on but it's horribly slow and bloated.

  In the class, a colleague mistyped a parameter instead of raising a sensible error message, Java dumped and he got a Java stack dump thing. I don't like

  --
  -- "It's not magic, it's work..."
• Let's try it with bacon... (Score:1)

  by Eric Wilhelm (6389)

  
block{
      s{Hello there!}
      add{ i{100} i{2} }
      i{42}
}

  cond{
    and{
        notnull{ref{accounts\[Exchange\].firstname}}
        notnull{ref{accounts\[Exchange\].lastname}}
    }
    concat{
        substr{ ref{accounts\[Exchange\].firstname} i{0} i{1}}
        ref{accounts\[Exchange\].lastname}
    }
}


  Yeah, still ridiculous, but co