On Oct 23, 2005, at 6:41 PM, Claus Wahlers wrote:
> Macromedia is implementing ECMAScript Edition 4, they are chairing the > working group, and as far as i can see they do a pretty good job so > far. For me, this adds more stability than any homebrew language (as > great as it may become) will ever be able to provide. Having said > that, imvho same applies to other homebrew languages, like for example > Ruby. From a commercial standpoint, i'll never know where those > language implementations will head at. > I would much rather trust Matz with Ruby's future than a committee anytime. Having programmed in many languages professionally I can say that those languages led by a single language designer are usually my favorites. I guess you would not use Perl, Python, Ruby or PHP...those homebrew languages that no commercial entity would ever be built upon. Oh, except folks like Google and Amazon ;-) There are good reasons why Programming Ruby and Agile Web Development with Rails are in the top 10 on Amazon's computer list. > cheers, > claus. > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
