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Re^2: Murder of a Perl coder (announced)by pernod (Chaplain) |
on Oct 13, 2004 at 21:44 UTC ( [id://399022]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Well, unless the language is JavaScript... I beg to differ ;) Javascript, when disregarding the DOM-interfaces, is in fact quite an elegant little language. Functions are first order objects, which means that you have a lot of functional programming goodness like currying and whatnot at your fingertips. This makes it very easy to write event-handlers, or event-handler generators, or in some (esoteric) cases generators for event-handler generators ('twas a rather exotic script, I must admit). Great fun! Then again, when you do regard javascript in conjunction with browser-dependent DOM-tree hell, you have a point. As long as the browser-makers don't agree on a standard API, the usefulness of the language is seriously reduced. I hope, and believe, that when sensible browser-makers start to dominate the market (and they are gaining), we will get a de facto standard, and this problem will go away. All in all, Javascript is IMHO a tool of enormous potential, though it is still in it's teens. I hope it develops :) pernod
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