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A programmer's dilemma II

12 pointsby tynover 16 years ago

3 comments

bdfh42over 16 years ago
The first post resonated with me - spot on I thought and emailed the link to anyone I thought would feel the same.<p>I don't think we should be surprised that some folks did not understand the point being made - 'twas ever thus.<p>I also feel that the "meme" captured here resonated nicely with Dave Winer's post <a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/12/04/soonItWillBeTimeToStartOve.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/12/04/soonItWillBeTime...</a> and with John Resig's <a href="http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-language-abstractions/" rel="nofollow">http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-language-abstractions/</a> . The abstractions are so leaky that they become the problem - no longer helping us get things done but actively (? passively) conspiring to stop us.
gnomic_conicover 16 years ago
Thank you for this. I've had some experience as a noob being thrown into a web app project and it really is a massive headache keeping three languages under control at once.<p>There needs to be some kind of complete language solution for these types of things. HTML has run it's course.
timcedermanover 16 years ago
PII circa 1991? Um, what? Does he mean 2001?