All,
I apologize for getting a little puffy it just bothers me in any language when
people get defensive about of "their language" without looking at what the added
functionality's potential might contibute to the language. Your comment kind of
broke the camels back. The rest of the people where bashing perl and perl
really has nothing to do with the comment that I made it just happened to have
the functionality in it. Take perl out of the equation. Tell me which is more
affective.
Java's Way currently
println("<HTML");
println("<BODY>");
println("</BODY>");
println("</HTML>");
or
println("<HTML>\n<BODY>\n</BODY>\n</HTML>");
An example of what I am talking about, though it may have to be some other type
of syntax to work. I don't currently know exactly how it would work but that is
why I put the idea forth. To everyone to think about a way to build a class
with a method that could implement the idea.
printBlock(
<HTML>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>
);
Of course an HTML page would contain a lot more lines of HTML but this gives an
idea of what I am talking about
if you had to edit the HTML which one would you prefer? If you had to generate
a bunch of HTML say to layout a table for a report which method would you
prefer. Say the table needed four nested tables to get the look you wanted and
when you finished the result of the HTML was that nothing showed up in the
browser because you forgot a closing </TD> tag. Which would be easier to debug?
The last implementation is much cleaner and a non-Java programmer could change
the HTML in a pinch if necessary. This is what Web Application Developers using
Servlets face every day. Taking table data and generating an HTML GUI from it
for example. This is what I am saying not that perl is better or that Java
sucks but that I would like to have this functionality.
Thanks for your comments and again. Sorry for any negative response I was
frustrated that people where missing the point and arguing about Perl and Java,
not the functionality
Luther Andal
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