Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Manuel Simoni's blog about programming (languages).
Archives
-
▼
2012
(85)
-
▼
July
(23)
- When somebody uses the word 'natural'
- When I can no longer tell whether my implementatio...
- When I read a blog post by Robert Harper
- When everybody hypes a language that I find crap
- When a new language doesn't get lexical scope right
- When I heard of Dart's type system
- When I hear they're adding features to C++
- When I finally grokked delimited continuations
- When it comes to my mind that the 1990s project of...
- When I'm about to replace an important subsystem i...
- When somebody says 'but Clojure will bring more pe...
- When I see that Ruby's parser is 10,000 lines of C
- When somebody tries to explain JavaScript's protot...
- When I see that a new language makes a difference ...
- When I mention first-class environments and fexprs...
- When I try to structure data in Scheme
- When a language designer talks about their ideas o...
- When a code base uses a directory structure deeper...
- When I read about Perl 6 semantics
- When I try to design an extension or alternative t...
- When I see that the designer of a new dynlang know...
- When somebody asks me how I added a DSL to my Lisp...
- When somebody says he doesn't like exceptions beca...
-
▼
July
(23)
Linkroll
- Alarming Development
- Alex Payne — Online Writing
- Arcane Sentiment
- Awelon Blue
- blog.might.net
- Dependent Types Reddit
- Dynamic Aspects
- eighty-twenty
- Existential Type
- Hack the Planet
- HXA7241
- Kazimir Majorinc's Lisp Notes
- Lambda the Ultimate
- Linux Weekly News
- Loper OS
- Luke Gorrie's weblog
- Making it stick.
- One Mistake After Another
- Paul Graham
- Paul Snively's Blog
- Philosophy Made Manifest
- PiLuD: Programming Language Design
- Proggit
- Real World Technologies Forums
- Send More Paramedics
- State of Code
- Stevey's Blog Rants
- Structural insight
- Subvert the dominant paradigm
- Taylor Campbell's blag
- The BileBlog
- The ByteBaker
- Trivium
- Ward's wiki
- wingolog
4 comments:
It would be less confusing if JavaScript followed Self's terminology instead of redefining "prototype" to mean "traits".
The dude inventing it should have just said to himself, "I am clearly out of my league here. I will provide first-class functions and allow people to roll their own object systems."
Not ideal, but enormously better than every web developer on the planet going through the contortions of that poor soul in the post.
The dude inventing it did so in great haste, and under the strange constraint that it needed to look like Java. It used its OO features heavily, so leaving them as an exercise for the user was not an option. The resulting Self-disguised-as-Java is an excellent general-purpose-language-as-DSL; it looks bad only because it became popular before its bugs could be fixed.
it not only looks bad, it is horribly designed. there is no good excuse. there just isn't. contemplate "this" for a moment.
Post a Comment