On Dec 3, 2006, at 06:00, Mike Schinkel wrote:
What about Perl, Ruby, Javascript, Cold Fusion, JSP (Java), ASP.NET
(C#/VB.NET), and ASP (VBScript/ActiveX)?
(Did I miss any of significance?)
Those platforms collectively comprise a very significant component
of the
web.
C, Java, Python, Perl, C# and Ruby attract developers who are capable
of creating libraries. These languages already have library
ecosystems in place. I believe that once the hard part (specifying
the HTML5 parsing algorithm) is already done, implementations for
something as interesting as HTML parsing will emerge without a
central master plan.
Client-side JavaScript can use the browser parser implementation.
Java implementations are likely to spill over to ColdFusion. C#
implementations are likely to spill over to VB.NET.
I am not sure if I have understood the culture of VBScript right, but
it may be a problem in terms of emergence of libraries without a
master plan.
--
Henri Sivonen
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http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
