Elegant Programming

Here’s a new book on writing elegant JavaScript:

Take a look at the Google Web Toolkit Product Overview. It’s a cool new open-source development kit that allows you to more easily create cross-browser AJAX applications. You develop in Java, so that you can debug and test using your favorite tools like Eclipse and Junit, and when ready, it generates HTML and highly-optimized JavaScript [...]

I normally avoid Slashdot, having overdosed on it around 2001/2002. But today there’s an article titled “What makes a programming language successful” that is truly a great read (using my normal setting of threshold=4 or 5). My favorite quote? “Comparing [Perl] to Basic is like comparing a pineapple to a raisin.” As an added bonus, [...]