Re: [xml-dev] Interpreter for a subset of Knuth's MMIX in pure XSLT

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 17:03:15 +0100, Michael Kay <> 
wrote:


> What was the design objective for this program?
>
> If it was to be as unreadable as possible and as slow as possible at the
> same time, while still failing to produce correct results, then I think
> it has probably been achieved. I would think Don Knuth would be
> absolutely appalled.

Pay careful attention to the date :-)  I took it as Sean's annual 
springtime contribution to XML discourse.