Re: [Roundup-devel] TAL and non-SQL

[Stefan S. <se...@sy...>]

  On 10/13/2010 07:58 PM, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Ralf Hemmecke<hem...@gm...>  wrote:
>>>> Sounds like a reasonable thing to do for Roundup 2.0 - also tearing out TAL...
>>> Hmm, I have quite a lot of code in TAL in the meanwhile, so I'd prefer
>>> to slowly phase this out (and keep support of TAL for a while).
>> What is so bad with TAL so that people think about removing it?
> It was a somewhat revolutionary idea when it was created but I think
> it took purity a little too far.

Purity always depends on the underlying idioms / paradigms that you want 
to promote. I would argue that TAL's "function calls" are decidedly 
impure (and more importantly: difficult to write and maintain), so a 
templating system with a more concise and convenient way to express 
substitutions (and other functional objects)  would be nice.

FWIW,
         Stefan

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