Comments on: The freedom of limiting features http://almaer.com/blog/the-freedom-of-limiting-features blogging about life, the universe, and everything tech Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:06:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Douglas Crockford http://almaer.com/blog/the-freedom-of-limiting-features/comment-page-1#comment-34286 Douglas Crockford Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:17:35 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog2/the-freedom-of-limiting-features#comment-34286 Just to be clear: I am not advocating ignorance. Lordy, there is already way too much of that in the Ajax world, and on the web in general. I am strongly in favor of people knowing what they're doing. Buried deep inside of JavaScript is a beautiful little language. It is what is left after stripping away all of the design errors and weak inspirations. When I teach JavaScript, I include the bad features, so that by contrast students can recognize the good ones. Just to be clear: I am not advocating ignorance. Lordy, there is already way too much of that in the Ajax world, and on the web in general. I am strongly in favor of people knowing what they’re doing.

Buried deep inside of JavaScript is a beautiful little language. It is what is left after stripping away all of the design errors and weak inspirations.

When I teach JavaScript, I include the bad features, so that by contrast students can recognize the good ones.

]]> By: Nathan Lee http://almaer.com/blog/the-freedom-of-limiting-features/comment-page-1#comment-34285 Nathan Lee Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:27:52 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog2/the-freedom-of-limiting-features#comment-34285 I'm with you on this one.. Once you've got your toolkit of developer stuff and can do everything you need the rest is just fluff really. Take java and the "new" (ish) language features: are they really necessary? Meh.. Not really, survived X years and Y projects without 'em. I guess this could be holding back programming as a whole as you have a mass of developers that depend on a mass of things (language features, APIs, libraries etc) and who insist a new one have all those things before it is as good as the old one.. So to that end you have C/C++ people wanting stuff in java and c#, and if everything was accomodated for you'd have a massive bloat in syntax/APIs etc. Take the axe to some of this extra rubbish I say! I’m with you on this one.. Once you’ve got your toolkit of developer stuff and can do everything you need the rest is just fluff really.

Take java and the “new” (ish) language features: are they really necessary?
Meh.. Not really, survived X years and Y projects without ‘em.

I guess this could be holding back programming as a whole as you have a mass of developers that depend on a mass of things (language features, APIs, libraries etc) and who insist a new one have all those things before it is as good as the old one..
So to that end you have C/C++ people wanting stuff in java and c#, and if everything was accomodated for you’d have a massive bloat in syntax/APIs etc.

Take the axe to some of this extra rubbish I say!

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