Tuesday April 01, 2003
Pounding nails with a chainsaw
It's not often that a technical book has me laughing so hard I spit coffee. While skimming the XSLT Cookbook
this morning, I came across the recipe for calculating square roots using an XSLT template. That brought on the giggles, and the following recipe, for calculating logarithms, finished me off. I haven't seen anything that perverse since an article describing how to render polygons using SQL. Yes, it can be done, but... but...