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mmastrac on May 3, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Miguel De Icaza: CLI on the Web.

ECMAscript 4 was supposed to bring these features to Javascript, but it ended up dead due to standards-committee politics:

http://ajaxian.com/archives/ecmascript-edition-4-brendan-spe...

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2007/10/open...

http://ajaxian.com/archives/the-future-of-ecmascript-3-is-4

fauigerzigerk on May 4, 2010 [–]

No, not just due to standards-committee politics. Many people didn't like ECMAScript 4 for good reason. I read the spec. It's monstrous. I have hardly ever seen a language with so many overlapping, redundant, completely pointless language features. I'm glad it's dead and I hope it doesn't become undead one day.

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