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Or, more likely, you don't comprehend the point she is making about the browser as a programming target. Go try SmallTalk for a while and you'll see what she's
by bandrami 9y ago
Or, more likely, you don't comprehend the point she is making about the browser as a programming target. Go try SmallTalk for a while and you'll see what she's getting at.
- ad-hominem 9y agoNot only are your points unrelated, but I'm intimately familiar with message-passing languages and metaprogramming. This article reads like somebody who is just beginning their understanding of computation and is fraught with inappropriate metaphors. Moreover, I understand her point completely and outlined the failures with her analogy above. Ripping out HTML while browsing a site has nothing to do with the "browser as a programming target" - no reasonable user would ever do that and 99% of jQuery scripts targeting websites would break if you drastically alter the HTML structure they depend on.