> (In fact following this logic to the inverse would make something like Brainfuck the optimal language).
You can reduce any argument to an absurd extreme. It's fair and fine to disagree with every single opinion I express, but I don't recognize your impression of that particular point as something I wrote.
My point was, and I'm sorry if I failed to get this across, that in my opinion there are bad parts in JS which could have been stripped away, making it better for an admittedly arbitrary as-defined-by-Udo's-mood-today value of "better".
Every single thing about this discussion, including the original article, is a matter of opinion. I agree with much of what you said about CSS and the need for a language to fit a purpose, and I don't want you to get the impression that I'm trying to say everything about HTML/CSS/JS is awesome.
>You can reduce any argument to an absurd extreme. It's fair and fine to disagree with every single opinion I express, but I don't recognize your impression of that particular point as something I wrote.
You're right on this.
On my end though, I accept the other extreme of what I said: a language can have the most features any other language has times two, and still be great.
That is, number of features is not really relevant as to whether a language is good or not.
People seem to think for example "oh, adding this and that would make Java too complicated and too hard to learn etc". At the same time nobody complaints against C# who has twice the number of features or even more. In fact most people find programming in C# is a joy compared to Java.
You can reduce any argument to an absurd extreme. It's fair and fine to disagree with every single opinion I express, but I don't recognize your impression of that particular point as something I wrote.
My point was, and I'm sorry if I failed to get this across, that in my opinion there are bad parts in JS which could have been stripped away, making it better for an admittedly arbitrary as-defined-by-Udo's-mood-today value of "better".
Every single thing about this discussion, including the original article, is a matter of opinion. I agree with much of what you said about CSS and the need for a language to fit a purpose, and I don't want you to get the impression that I'm trying to say everything about HTML/CSS/JS is awesome.