[Wsuug] Of Browsers and Compatibility

[Andrew Jaswa]

Someone asked me about this very topic today at work... It was more
along the lines what I thought about it. But anyways... I think the
positive implications of having "compliers" that are backwards
compatible with older "versions" (to use Zach's analogy) of code out
weights the negative ones. There is also a point when backwards
compatibility becomes a burden to both the makers of the "compliers"
and the coders. I would suppose that any coder worth their salt would
want to use the latest features provided in the compliers. And by
being able to see how people do things and handle their code will
separate the proverbial "men from boys" or "women from girls".

Telling your code how to "compile" is a good thing in the long run. I
would want to know that my code that is 2 years old will still work
even if it's not up to date.

I also think that talking toasters would be awesome. (insert Brave
Little toaster quote here)

Just my 2 pennies...


Andrew