Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed1.swip.net!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news3 From: Michael Wojcik Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: tools for programming applets Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 11:31:47 -0400 Organization: Micro Focus Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <028d2009-98b7-43a3-b02d-83eaa89db79e@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p792dd2c560a2b32265b5cb273fca3b3f137f5f73db2635ea.newsdawg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4660 Lew wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: > >>> You're obviously making silly remarks and no arguments. You've >>> stripped and haven't replied to my question "Which languages have a >>> jQuery equivalent?". > >> If you insist: “certainly not Java”. > > Once again, silly remark and no argument. The question is what > languages BESIDES Java DO have such a thing. The point is that the > other languages don't either, so there is no advantage to any language > on that score. To be fair, horrible, ill-designed, bloated, overrated, unnecessary, standards-violating third-party libraries exist for many languages. There are probably even some for Java. It's true they're rarely as undeservedly popular as jQuery is. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University