On Tuesday 08 April 2008 21:50:54 Barry Hart wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. I do think a higher level of abstraction is > possible - even with some of the nice libraries, JavaScript somehow feels > more verbose than the Python I write on the server side. I was just > reviewing some code I wrote which makes an Ajax request and when it > returns, creates or updates a chart with the data. 40 lines of code! If I > build a chart in Excel, it updates automatically when the data changes and > I don't have to write *any* code. :-)
And at some point, you resort to using VBA when the excel sheet is supposed to do something more. My point is not that higher abstraction isn't possible. It is that higher abstraction won't prevent you from getting into programming at some point. Or your consultants, which then will separate the men from the boys... Diez --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" 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/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
