- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 12:20:07 +0200
On Dec 3, 2006, at 06:00, Mike Schinkel wrote: > What about Perl, Ruby, Javascript, Cold Fusion, JSP (Java), ASP.NET > (C#/VB.NET), and ASP (VBScript/ActiveX)? > (Did I miss any of significance?) > > Those platforms collectively comprise a very significant component > of the > web. C, Java, Python, Perl, C# and Ruby attract developers who are capable of creating libraries. These languages already have library ecosystems in place. I believe that once the hard part (specifying the HTML5 parsing algorithm) is already done, implementations for something as interesting as HTML parsing will emerge without a central master plan. Client-side JavaScript can use the browser parser implementation. Java implementations are likely to spill over to ColdFusion. C# implementations are likely to spill over to VB.NET. I am not sure if I have understood the culture of VBScript right, but it may be a problem in terms of emergence of libraries without a master plan. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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