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Re: [ProgSoc] Programming! Code!
Myles Byrne wrote:
> I thought it was cool because in another language the code would
> probably be something like:
>
> urls = new Array();
> listings = page.getElementsByClassName('.listing');
> for (listing in listings) {
> links = listing.getElementsByTagName('a');
> for (link in links) {
> url = link.getAttribute('href')
> if (url) {
> urls.append(url);
> }
> }
> }
>
> ... and that wouldn't be a big deal. My cunning plan was to use the code
> sample as a seugway into a discussion about why we should be moving to
> more towards this higher-level, more concise form of programming and
> away from languages Java.
To make this segway, you need to make a comparison between language
features, which you haven't.
In fact, you are comparing two APIs, not two languages.
I prefer the API that allows this example to be written in one line.
I prefer the language with less tricky syntax.
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Ryan Heise
http://www.ryanheise.com/
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