[RndTbl] As Requested. Javascript WAT Talk

[Hartmut W Sager]

This 4-minute video is hilarious!  But, it also highlights a pet peeve of
mine - that the current crop of programming languages for the Web are a
bunch of trash cobbled together by cowboys and other amateurs.  PHP is
notoriously in that camp, with its details changing (backward
non-compatible to some degree) with every new whole-number version.

A noteworthy exception is Java (not JavaScript), which was designed by real
computer scientists at Sun a few decades ago.

The other current and near-current "real" languages (but not Web-specific
languages) are of course C, C++, C#, Ada, and even MS Basic.

A similar parallel (pun accidental) exists in control panels.  The world's
most popular one is cPanel (and its WHM other half), cobbled together by
Texas cowboys - real junk!  The best control panel is Parallels Plesk,
designed by some top-notch real programmers in Russia.

Hartmut W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331


On 12 January 2016 at 23:36, Paul Sierks <psierks at sierkstech.net> wrote:

> As per the request made during the general meeting to post this on here.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqhZZNUyVFM
>
> Enjoy!
>
> - Paul
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