Steven D'Aprano, 17.04.2013 11:16:
> If you look at the node.js site, the first thing that jumps out at me is
> that the culture encourages churning out packages rather than encouraging
> quality packages. The front page offers author recognition for being
> prolific, but not for writing good co
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:02:01 -0400, Rodrick Brown wrote:
> I came across this article which sums up some of the issues I have with
> modern programming languages. I've never really looked at Javascript for
> anything serious or Node itself but I found this article really
> informational.
>
> "The
rusi gmail.com> writes:
>
> Just what I said: ecosystem matters. We may or may not argue about
> "more than language", but it surely matters. Some examples:
>
> 1. In the link that Roderick originally posted there is a long comment
> that adds perl to the languages the author discussed. As a la
On Apr 16, 10:42 pm, Terry Jan Reedy wrote:
> > "The “Batteries included” philosophy of Python was definitely the right
> > approach during the mid 90’s and one of the reasons that I loved Python
> > so much; this was a time before modern package management, and before it
> > was easy to find and
On Apr 16, 10:36 pm, Andrew Berg wrote:
> On 2013.04.16 12:14, rusi wrote:> However combine it with your other statement
>
> >> Python's package management is suboptimal (though it is being worked on),
>
> > and a different picture emerges, viz that *the ecosystem around the
> > language matters
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Andrew Berg wrote:
> On 2013.04.16 11:02, Rodrick Brown wrote:
>> I came across this article which sums up some of the issues I have with
>> modern programming languages. I've never really looked at Javascript
>> for anything serious or Node itself but I found thi
On 4/16/2013 12:02 PM, Rodrick Brown wrote:
I came across this article which sums up some of the issues I have with
modern programming languages. I've never really looked at Javascript for
anything serious or Node itself but I found this article really
informational.
"The “Batteries included” ph
On 2013.04.16 12:14, rusi wrote:
> However combine it with your other statement
>
>> Python's package management is suboptimal (though it is being worked on),
>
> and a different picture emerges, viz that *the ecosystem around the
> language matters more than the language*
It was a minor point,
For javascript *the language* this is a good watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXEgk1Hdze0
However I believe that the language view is a bit dated.
On Apr 16, 9:50 pm, Andrew Berg wrote:
> Perhaps having a minimal core works well for node.js, but Python is much,
> much better off having it
On 2013.04.16 11:02, Rodrick Brown wrote:
> I came across this article which sums up some of the issues I have with
> modern programming languages. I've never really looked at Javascript
> for anything serious or Node itself but I found this article really
> informational.
I don't think the aut
On 16 April 2013 17:25, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On 4/16/2013 12:02 PM, Rodrick Brown wrote:
>
> I came across this article which sums up some of the issues I have with
> modern programming languages. I've never really looked at Javascript for
> anything serious or Node itself but I found this a
On 4/16/2013 12:02 PM, Rodrick Brown wrote:
I came across this article which sums up some of the issues I have
with modern programming languages. I've never really looked at
Javascript for anything serious or Node itself but I found this
article really informational.
"The "Batteries included"
I came across this article which sums up some of the issues I have with
modern programming languages. I've never really looked at Javascript for
anything serious or Node itself but I found this article really
informational.
"The “Batteries included” philosophy of Python was definitely the right
ap
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