Re:The Perils of Partially Powered Languages
by justincormack on Sunday August 21, 2011 @04:58PM
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Though xslt didnt come out of Java, it comes from the w3c mindset of how things should be done. His main criticism is the poor Java XML library, combined with the weakness of xslt, so neither work. Now we all know that most DOM style interfaces are badly designed, tend to think the answer is the Haskell one is an exception.
Everyone else just avoids xml for these types of reason... Obviously you cant for this problem.
He also has some critisism towards Java the language, but it played a lesser role in the article. Some of the targets of his critique (like the lack of sum types in Java) are also reasons why Java does not have cool embedded domain specific languages like Haskell has.