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Not alone anymore!!! (Score:2)
Hey, cool, I'm not alone anymore!!! I've been saying that EcmaScript (formerly known as JavaScript) is actually a pretty decent language if you use it properly and have a good implementation (say, the Mozilla engine that also powers Adobe's SVG viewer).
I wrote a bunch of large GUI apps in EcmaScript and quite frankly it was all clean and well done, and worked really well. For sure, I would have preferred it to be Perl but overall I can't say that it made much of a difference.
Now the problem is, how does one explain to a DreamWeaver Kiddie the importance of clean code...
-- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]
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Re:Not alone anymore!!! (Score:2)
Doing it properly has to include "using it for proper purposes." I've seen way too many [perl.org] simple form-based applications that failed to work for me because they tried to do something special with JavaScript when a straightforward, copy out of a textbook CGI program should have been used.
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers