Re: Killing VB softly with his song, Killing VB softly...with a song.............

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You make some very valid points and yes I agree I should be referring to
JavaScript as ECMAScript. However when you say...

> Just my opinion...I could be wrong.

I couldn't agree more. :-)

Have you not observed the phenomena of developers who are highly skilled
trying to give a presentation using C# when they spend most of their time in
VB.NET and vice a versa? It is almost hilarious. Our personal preferences
emerge as matters of convenience, habit, and our prediliction for one thing
or another. When we try to extend ourselves into another realm our thought
processes bounce back and forth, we stumble around and often give up only to
settle with what we are most comfortable with. For example...

Surely you have seen The Godfather Part II? Michael meets Tatalia the pimp
and the corrupt cop in the restaurant. They try to speak in Sicilian
presumably because neither wants the cop to understand what they are
discussing. Michael has spent most of his life speaking English and
struggles with the Sicilian syntax and the grammar, becomes frustrated
because he is not achieving his objective and reverts by blurting out what
he is trying to say in English. Then of course he goes to the bathroom and
comes back with a gun and shoots both of the VB developers he was having
dinner with a few moments earlier :-)

When it comes to web development I am arguing that we can avoid this
frustrating phenomena if we adopt the use of a single syntax and grammar.

<%= Clinton Gallagher



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