[...] 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.

Just a note.

He who asks will be a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn't ask will remain a fool for life.

Chady | http://chady.net/

In reply to Re: Should I learn Perl? by Chady
in thread Should I learn Perl? by Anonymous Monk

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