in reply to Should I learn Perl?

[...] X/D/HTML is moronic... Who writes any language where you can't define a formula? You do ANYTHING twice, you build a formula; even Word has macro's [...]

You seem to talk about HTML as if it is a programming language. You say that it lacks formulas and you have to write “twice” but you're missing the point; HTML is a markup language, and not a programming language, so you use a scripting language (i.e JavaScript) to control it, and the implementation of such script depends on the browser, and that's where you have to write everything twice. The best solution would be not to try to control everything, and just settle for HTML as a presentation language.

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Re: Re: Should I learn Perl?
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 11, 2003 at 07:34 UTC
    Well, I must agree with you there at least... but once again, I must point out that at least Word has macro's; which is almost like a formula for a markup. CSS is getting close, but I still think its moronic to have to apply 3 languages (or psuedo-languages) : HTML, CSS, and Javascript; simply to approach some form of interactivity.


    And, to top it off, you still have compatability issues... again, IE still doesn't handle style sheets well.. better than it had, but not yet as well as Netscape 6.


    Anyway all, thank you for all of your answers... I will disappear for a while now, and reappear shortly once I've learned some decent syntax for Perl and ready to roll.


    Me


    P.S. You will know me when I come back... my signature hasn't changed in forever... Im always just 'Me'

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      You will know me when I come back... my signature hasn't changed in forever... Im always just 'Me'

      *cough* dontcare *cough*

      Me

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