xslt is a functional language
By
nic
on March 11, 2007
Did you know you can even do higher order functions in XSLT? It's awesome.
XSLT could be a practical way into functional programming, unfortunately most programmers don't seem to give it the time of day.
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Discussion (5)
Indeed. Functional programming rocks, and XSLT really introduced me to the functional paradigm.
ouch, poor Tom. There are gentler intros to functional programming...
@Robin: Such as...?
scheme and lisp come to mind, erlang, and maybe haskell. But a language expressed in xml? Not really friendly, at least to me.
It's a good practical way to get started in fp.