On 3/26/2008, "Douglas Crockford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I think this is the specific point of disagreement. Complexity in a language >does not necessarily reduce the complexity of programs. I think the opposite >may >be truer. The difficulties we have had in the development community since I think this is THE point of prose rather than technique in that I can argue either side. An example is Microsofts LINQ - it is already implemented in .Net 3.5. I can do the same effects using delegates to static IEnumerable in older versions of .Net but it would take me several (dozen) more lines of code. When compiled, the result may be the same, but my implementation may not be standard. (Doing it my own way may allow me to discover something better, but that is another discussion) I respect both sides: I trust Brendan as the language designer, but I can not get over Dougs fear of The Ghost of Netscape. Let us take action instead of throwing opinions around: Brendan: What new features that can not be implemented via code constructs now? Doug: Please give concrete example of YUI code that accomplishes something proposed Then we, as computer SCIENTISTS can calculate the complexity ratio of code vs. language implementation. We could keep on arguing about speed and best specific algorithms after that if you want. Ric _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
