[Greasemonkey] Arrgghh!!! it runs asynch!!!

[Tom Emerson]

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Jeremy Dunck wrote:
> On 6/28/06, Tom Emerson <osnut at pacbell.net> wrote:
>> Now I know better (and have less appreciation of the language
>> than I did before[...]

> Sorry you feel that way.  There may be benefits to this language
> design, but you seem sure that COBOL had it all figured out many years
> ago.

Well, this is starting to drift way off topic and into "religious
flame-ware material", so I'll simply state that yes, I'm a vocal
proponent of strongly typed languages.  (but concede there may be cases
were this is impractical)

As to COBOL itself, I certainly don't claim it to be "the perfect
language" [you should see the shenanigans I had to pull in order to
perform bit-manipulations... ;) ] but I've found few languages, outside
of maybe direct assembler coding, that will give a programmer a good
understanding of exactly what is happening "in memory" when you declare
a variable...  (and knowledge of which is what enabled me to actually
write a bit-manipulation library in COBOL...)

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