root / home / tseaver / obzervationz / 2004 / 60ki_js_20041124 60,000 Lines of Javascript!!Harry Fuecks blogs about an interesting survey...
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...of recurring problems in projects using dynamic languages
At the other end of the scale there's developers who know a language well and
can't resist adding smart
features. That needs to be a golden rule of what
not to do with dynamic languages - don't extend the language (at least not
using the language itself).
He talks mainly about Javascript and PHP, but then points at a nasty bit of cleverness using Python's shiny new decorator syntax.