Re: Companies Only Offering Ada-95 Compilers

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Sat, 19 May 2012 03:36:11 +0200, Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> a  
écrit:

> On Friday, May 18, 2012 3:35:11 PM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 May 2012 15:02:46 -0500, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>>
>> > This is the new world order of software engineering. After 50 years
>> > of computer science and programming languages research, the world has
>> > decided it will be Javascript and HTML5.
>>
>> No. Due to opening a new market the technology (rather lack of) is
>> returning to the point where it was 20-30 years ago. Such retreats  
>> always
>> happen when there is no pressure to improve quality or safety.
>
> Does this mean we'll be having PostScript -driven GUIs instead of this  
> Frankenstein HTML5/CSS/Javascript monster? Because the way I see it PS  
> has the advantage of having been designed to address the HTML5/CSS  
> issues (i.e. PS was intended for layout, whereas HTML was not)?

Obviously it was not, and it was on purpose. That's the role of CSS, not  
HTML and HTML5, which describes structures and basic semantics traits. The  
idea behind these web standards is the separation of presentation  
(Cascading *Style* Sheet) and semantic (HyperText *Markup* Language).

> Either way, I hope HTML5 dies.

Sorry, it surely won't ;-) Too much a Holy Grail for so much people  
all‑over the world.

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