Posted by
Marcus G. Daniels on
Nov 20, 2013; 5:49am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Fwd-10-reasons-the-browser-is-becoming-the-universal-OS-Software-tp7584335p7584338.html
On 11/19/13, 10:27 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> Who'da thought Brendan Eich would present Scheme as the language for
> the Netscape internals, what we now call the DOM. And be rejected ..
> go fetch another rock. And in less than a week, he gives Scheme a
> pretty face .. i.e. "looks like a real language". The rest is history.
Imagine what could have been accomplished if they would have gone with
Scheme? No XML, not apologists with JSON. Speaking of Scheme, there
was a nice document layout system called DSSSL that thrived for a while
in the late 90's. Of course, anything that versatile needs to be
stopped, so we got XSL instead. I tried, too hard, to use XSLT as a
functional browser-based programming language for years, but let's face
it, it's got the XML disease. When you think you've got it good with
JavaScript, well, is there any hope at all?
Marcus
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