I started trying to sling JS in 1999 I think. Most of the
things I complained about are resolved now hence my statement
that JS doesn't suck anymore. :) Though some things like
reserved words were still treated differently across
browsers as recently as last year.
On Mar 8, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* Ashley <[email protected]> [2009-03-08 19:15]:
Well... the lack of regular array operations like push
Are we talking about the same language?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference/
Global_Objects/Array/push
the disparate and incompatible implementations of regular
expressions
Have yet to run into any. Are you sure you’re trying to use
only ECMAScript standard features?
some still current syntax disparities like trailing commas
or reserved keyword treatment
Yes, IE 6 is old and backward. :-)
the errors constantly shutting down browsers
Huh?
operators behaving differently.
Again with the huh…
I suppose I get what you mean, the spec didn't suck, the
implementations did. But we were discussing usage, not design
theory. :)
Actually, the spec does suck in various ways, but not too badly,
and the implementations are reasonably consistent nowadays – at
least if you exclude IE 6, which is largely in line with modern
browsers but has a bunch of annoying quirks like the trailing
comma stupidity.
++ to the quoted for the use of cromulent.
That was actually part of the reason I quoted it… :-)
Regards,
--
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
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