Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>
> And I'm finding myself left pretty cold about this generally. Maybe
> there's something more to it, but this looks pretty much like XPath Lite
> with ECMAScript object syntax. Maybe that's what people want. I can
> see an 80/20 there, though it strikes me funny that they used, well,
> JavaScript, a language I've been running away from for years.
I read this over and I liked it. It struck a cord with me becuase it
takes an API and makes it into syntax.
The idea of preferring syntax over an API is a theme I hit on
in Language-Centric Software Development[1]. DOM
and SAX are just APIs and, as such, are 'tacked' on to the side
of a language, while E4X is a language tuned to solve problems
in a particular domain.
[1] http://bitworking.org/story/5
-joe
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