On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 1:46 PM, James Keats <james.w.ke...@gmail.com>wrote:

> The Javascript notaries have advocated using a small functional subset
> of javascript, rather than the full gamut of javscript's quirks, and I
> was saddened while watching the Rich Hickey talk when he said that
> clojurescript would abstract away the complex conventions and
> discipline required when writing apps for gClosure by producing code
> ready for its optimizing compiler, when it could've simply enforced
> that small functional subset of javascript itself (sans gClosure)
> that's now considered idiomatic best practice.


Restricting yourself to a functional subset of JavaScript can't fix
JavaScript. The functional subset stinks, Javascript notaries be damned.

David

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