Re: who came up with JavaScript language syntax?

netscape came up with javascript and its syntax.

its case sensitive because c/c++, perl, python, the unix file system, to
name a few are case sensitive. javascript is the lisp engine with a c like
syntax, and i believe a very simple and easy, but powerfull syntax which
includes associative arrays, dynamic object properties, llamada functions,
closure (all stuff c# doesn't get to version 4.0 - well actually c# 4.0 has
incomplete closure support- probably version 5.0 required). whats so hard
about being case sensitive?

it only flaw is the use of === (exact equals) in case statements.

the asp.net 2.0 support of callbacks, and the next releases support of AJAX
makes javascript more important.

html is a simple implementation of SGML gramar, and as a markup langauage is
pretty simple. the w3c browser dom is basically the xml dom, which was
designed to be easy to use from javascript.

note xhtml unlike html is case senstive.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)


"Rob R. Ainscough" <robains@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> What sick saddistic person came up with the JavaScript language syntax?
> And was it the same person (or group of people) that came up with the HTML
> syntax??
>
> OMG, has no one noticed this hopeless poor choice of language syntax? And
> why-o-why is it case sensitive? Is it just a carry over from light weight
> parsers? If we can't get out of this nightmare because of compatibility
> sake -- where and how is this going to progress to a point of efficiency
> in the development cycle?
>
> Does ASP.NET 2.0 remove the need for JavaScript ?
>


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