Re: Is ES3 good enough? Was incrementally strengthening ES3 paradigms considered?

2007-11-14 Thread P T Withington
On 2007-11-14, at 00:14 EST, Yuh-Ruey Chen wrote: Oh come on :) I was referring to the syntax of the class system, which is undoubtedly Java-esque. Lot of Java haters in the functional (no 1st-class functions!) and scripting (too verbose!) programming crowd. Pretty much everyone's first

Is ES3 good enough? Was incrementally strengthening ES3 paradigms considered?

2007-11-08 Thread Peter Michaux
I've been reading the blogs and fuss over the the ES4 proposal. It seems to me that if ES3 was so horribly inadequate then big changes to the language would be welcomed unanimously. It must be that ES3 is sufficient to get by well enough that we have the luxury to argue about the worth of the