Re: Usenix: to wash it all away

From	Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Usenix: to wash it all away
Date	2014-07-11 19:53 +1000
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On 11/07/2014 5:19 AM, Randy Westlund wrote:
> On 2014-07-10, RS Wood wrote:
>> Here's a great article from the March 2014 edition of the Usenix
>> magazine, written by James Mickens.  It's a bit hyperbolic at times but
>> otherwise it's a hilarious read about HTML and CSS and why Javascript
>> sucks and the WWW is getting worse, not better.  Such an article
>> desperately needs to be circulating on Usenet, not in PDF form on the
>> WWW, but that's another issue, I suppose.
>>
>> https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1403_02-08_mickens.pdf
>
> This is great, although I'd say things are getting better rather
> than worse.
>
> I started doing web development for a few months ago.  We have HTML5
> and CSS3 selectors, which are both awesome.  Java applets, Flash,
> and Silverlight are fading.  We have fun new javascript frameworks
> like node.js and AngularJS (which makes easy MVC single-page apps in
> a way that doesn't break the web).  Even IE has finally realized
> that there are general web standards!
>
> Javascript has its share of flaws and silly behaviors, but I think a
> functional, asynchronous language is a good fit for web stuff.
>

I find it hard to express the disgust I feel when faced with a 
duck-typed language. It's as if everything we've ever learnt the hard 
way about development efficiency has been thrown away, in favour of a 
system that outright encourages the production of rubbish code that is 
just hacked at until it kind a' works.

Sylvia.

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Usenix: to wash it all away RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-07-10 15:26 +0000
  Re: Usenix: to wash it all away Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-07-10 17:01 +0000
  Re: Usenix: to wash it all away Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-07-10 19:19 +0000
    Re: Usenix: to wash it all away Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-07-11 19:53 +1000

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