Allen Wirfs-Brock (2014-02-15T20:06:01.000Z)
domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2014-02-20T22:04:38.575Z)
On Feb 15, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Brendan Eich wrote: > When I'm in a bad mood, I call it VisualCobol. It's painfully low-level and verbose, yet hard to verify. Let's hope that the JSCert work will help, and Allen has been common'ing subroutines. Whatever we call it, the spec language ain't great. But remember, prior to ES5, it was closer to Cobolish machine language. No structured control, goto's targeting numeric step numbers, intermediate results referenced by step number (sorta SSA with numeric ids), etc. There has never been a complete redo, just incremental improvements and refactorings. But we've definitely advanced from the early 1950s to the late 1970s.