Re our earlier evolution-of-the-list discussion, here's the inventor of JavaScript discussing how to manage its evolution.
It fits into a change at SFX in terms of how to do computing everywhere with the world's most deployed language.
-- Owen
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> From /. comes a pointer to an interesting discussion by Brendan Eich during the discussion of Coffee Script. Bottom line: get the developers involved in looking at new features, not just standard committees.
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> Coffee Script & Mozilla's "Pythonic extensions" are great examples.
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http://goo.gl/FnGne>
> -- Owen
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