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PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

Posted Apr 17, 2012 16:30 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad) by dtlin
Parent article: PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

This is old news. And yes, JavaScript is almost as terrible as PHP. In some sense it's worse then PHP because with PHP you can just say no while JavaScript is often unavoidable. Even if you use something like ASP.NET or GWT you still sometimes need to delve unto generated JavaScript.


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PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

Posted Apr 18, 2012 15:59 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

JavaScript isn't unavoidable, there are compilers for sane languages that generate JavaScript output. One such compiler is js_of_ocaml.

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