Build not your house on sand. Regrettably, I fear it is far too late for that advice.
As Crockford himself writes, there were a lot of poor implementation decisions made in the design of JavaScript. And there are a lot of people who've written code that relies on what he called the "Awful Parts" and the "Bad Parts". JavaScript and its derivatives are certainly important, and increasing popular, technologies. And it's ubiquitous availability has definitely led me to use it, for web design, but also for prototyping other ideas. Ultimately, I expect, its design flaws will lead to a collapse, forcing us to move on to yet another platform. Enjoy the ride. On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Owen Densmore<[email protected]> wrote: > At Friam today we discussed the latest buzz about javascript and it's > renaissance in the computing world. --- lots of excellent information removed. see the original thread for details --- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
