Ah, yes, I remember XSLT. I had a week to write a web page that converted XML into a webpage displaying some fund prices for an insurance company. I spent that whole week struggling, and by Friday afternoon I realised that it was probably impossible to do what I wanted to do with the version of XML parser that was installed on the web server, so I re-wrote the site in plain ASP code and easily finished it by home time the same day. I have been working with XSLT for years now, and I still think it sucks and cannot see the value of it. What's the point of a language that you have to write recursive templates just to do what a for loop can do in any other language... and did you know that in xslt you can't change the value of a variable??
So,... that's what I think of XSLT... now I've just read up about AppML and W3Schools seems to have a pretty big ego about this one... so I did a google search for good AppML sites to see if one could actually build a site with it and couldn't see any sites written in AppML, but came across this forum instead. Where are these sites? Do they exist... also why is it written in ASP? If you're going to write open source stuff, please use PHP, so that you can stick it on your free server.
Oh, ... one more thing... I live in good old South Africa, where connecting to the internet costs me about R20 / hour (about $3) and I download at 5kb / sec if I'm lucky, so chances are highly unlikely that I'll want to run my software over an internet connection. What's wrong with these first world countries that never think of Africa?
I love complaining :)
Ajax sounds quite useful... I think I'll use a lot of that in future.
My predictions for the future:
- Microsoft is going to do whatever it can to get as much out of everyone as possible, trying to make us believe that we'll die if we don't have the latest version of windows.
- Africa will be the first to get absolutely fed up and move to linux, and play games on second hand PlayStations thrown away by the Japanese.
- All future software will be written in cobol
- The mainframe will become cool again
- We won't need flying cars, because we have aeroplanes
- Car manufacturers will sell cars that expire and have to be renewed every year
- We'll either own a massive company and everything else, or have to rent from and work for those that do
- Life support systems will run on windows and people will die because windows was just too expensive to renew
Seriously, I'm actually here at work on a saturday, waiting for the mainframe people to fix a bug in Objectstar (ever heard of this language) that's pretty much brought the biggest company in South Africa to a halt.
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