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HTML .. when PostScript was way better. The many years spent with C and C++ when there are better alternatives around. Microsoft Windows, OSX, Linux when Plan
by jlouis 14y ago
HTML .. when PostScript was way better.
The many years spent with C and C++ when there are better alternatives around.
Microsoft Windows, OSX, Linux when Plan9 exists.
OOP.
NoSQL and its total misunderstanding of the power of having a declarative query language.
Cache coherency, ordering guarantees, where we should opt for less.
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- readme 14y agoI think you confused 'truth' with 'things jlouis likes better than others' --- to be fair, djikstra seemed to suffer from the same distortion.
- arethuza 14y agoOut of interest, have you written much interactive PostScript?
- tluyben2 14y agoNo, but they could've extended that instead of creating a new monster?
- rfurmani 14y agoI've done a fair bit of development inside Postscript (way back when it was one of my favorite languages) and its problem in this context is that it /is/ a programming language, and one that would have to be effectively sandboxed. HTML on the other hand is purely a markup language, is extensible, can be reflowed, and is much more natural for writing documents by hand.