Ooh!  My kind of a comment.  Gloomy, pessimistic, dark.

I like it!

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Dale Schumacher
<[email protected]>wrote:

> 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 ---
>
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