On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Forgetting the law, common sense dictates that the standard should not be > > mutated but should remain consistent and pure. The last thing we all need > is > > a deviation or barstardisation. In the end the status quo for better or > > worse is what people want. > > I beg to differ. The world is chaotic and full of ad-hoc mutations, > that's where the really interesting stuff goes on - in fact, that's > the very essence of evolution! Look at how JavaScript, a NetScape > bastard language based on Java, revolutionized the web experience. > It's horrible to maintain, adheres to no single standard - yet > practically beats Flash, Silverlight and Java/JavaFX Script. If I had > the choice between a bastardized, but innovate solution from Google; > over a standardized, but legacy solution, then I'd go for the former. > The droves of new Android developers kind of proves that. > > Actually the diversity of computer languages is very few given the total number of developers in the world. THe figure is far less than an equivalently sample population size in the world. Goto PNG they have thousands of different languages in a country with a few million if that. Humans have been far more inventive and diverse with the spoken word than they have with computer languages. JavaScript was not based on Java its similarities are only perceived because so many languages look the same. Sharing keywords does not make it a direct relative, if it did then just about every language could be said to be a barstardization of C. Even if one does not know java they can pretty much read in a basic form c#. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
