On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 01:35 +0200, Left Right wrote: > David, I used Metaas, and I know that grammar file... it's well, it's > wrong, and it doesn't reflect many things that happened since FP10 (Metaas > project was abandoned before FP10 was released, so, no handling for > vectors, for example, but not only that, it really is an oversimplification > of AS3 syntax), some particular evil things like metadata haven't been > handled there... neither conditional compilation was. It might sound like a > 1%, but it may be a dealbreaker as well... you really never know. You must > have a solid proof, not an assumption that "it will probably work". It will probably work is good enough for me at the moment to warrant giving it a try. If it doesn't work out in the end, then I was wrong and we'd all have learnt from it.
> > And, yeah, you are wrong about SWC, it's just a zip archive - I used it to > just save JPEGs for simpler project management. Please don't play Mr Pedantic. A SWC to most Flex devs is a zip file with a SWF file inside it. Regardless of file extension, if it lacks a SWF, it's just a zip with a different name. > There is no correspondence between the time the language was invented, and > how wisely it was designed. COBOL and Java are examples of human stupidity > propagated to the extent of absurdity... While C is a nice small language, > which actually is very much consistent with itself and logical (unlike the > bigger brother - C++). That's the thing about programming languages: one man's marmite sandwich is another's inedible muck on a plate. I hate C. It's overly complex, uses a nasty syntax etc. I can live with Java though as it's OK. Not great, but way better than C in my opinion. You clearly have a different opinion... > I feel silly having to defend Common Lisp... Well we agree on that at least ;) > > Have you considered that your point of view may be what it is because > everyone does Java these days, so I'm doing it too - why be different, if I > wanted to be different, I'd buy an Apple computer? :) No, because I don't actually use Java very much. I just see it as the best choice in this case. Oh and I don't own any Apple products either. Not a fan as it happens. I gave up trying to be different years ago with computing. It just makes life hard. > After all, don't you have a soul, an actual programming soul that demands a > fang-shui, a perfection at the smallest detail - a tool crafted precisely > to do exactly what you need? Um, no, not really. The art to being a good developer is nothing to do with having fancy tools; it's in knowing how to craft well with any tool. David.
