Postscript is an interesting case - I am told that it is Turing-complete,
but its uses are almost entirely declarative: for layout, akin to HTML.
Perhaps someone more knowledgeable about PS on this list would care to
comment on how that came to be?
-Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kay [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 5:18 AM
> To: 'Mukul Gandhi';
> Cc: 'Liam Quin'; 'Costello, Roger L.'
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] RE: Declarative programming requires a
> different mindset
>
> > But I agree, that XHTML is not a programming language (but
> > interestingly, I think, XSLT is -- because it allows us to
> express, a
> > sequence of instructions, which are processable by machines).
>
> I think that in common usage, the term "programming language"
> means a language that is computationally complete
> (Turing-complete). On that definition, XSLT and XQuery are
> certainly programming languages, while XSD and XHTML are not.
>
> (The notion of a "sequence of instructions processible by
> machines" isn't needed to make this distinction.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Kay
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>
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