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I recall Philip Greenspun’s (of the “tenth rule” fame) book about web development. In it, he explained how he was G$D with TCL and AOLServer while others around
by braythwayt 7y ago
I recall Philip Greenspun’s (of the “tenth rule” fame) book about web development. In it, he explained how he was G$D with TCL and AOLServer while others around him were still arguing about how high to pile the Java towers of abstraction.
http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/ http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/
- yesenadam 7y agoThat link is to Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing. I'd looked at a lot of pages on that site before a while ago, but didn't read that book, thinking maybe it's out of date and not worth reading. Boy I was wrong, it's gold. Looking at it just now, I couldn't help thinking his style of illustrating with photos was an influence on your own books?! I guess so. (I've only read the 2 coffee-themed JS books, which I really loved. Thank you! p.s. The most sophisticated JS program I wrote was "JavaScript REPL with allong.es" hehe.)
- dublin 7y agoI haven't looked in ages - is AOLserver still the best Tcl web-app platform? Tcl is an amazingly direct programming language, which makes things easy to do, and with the significant advantage of crystal-clear readability, and less error-prone code. (A friend of mine maintains Tcl is really short for "try coding less"...)