perspective on ruby

Fri Apr 21 21:39:52 EDT 2006

In article <w1_1g.73947$dW3.51498 at newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>,
 Edward Elliott <nobody at 127.0.0.1> wrote:

>XML?  Conceptually (and more elegantly) covered 
>as LISP s-expressions. 

"...Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion 
and condescension."
    -- Verity Stob 
<http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/01/11/exception_handling/>

>XSLT?  Just a bastardized spawn of Prolog.

As is any kind of pattern matching, including everyone's favourite 
regular expressions. Prolog did it all.