Qooxdoo strikes back [JavaScript]

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From: David Mark on 5 Jun 2010 19:03

On Jun 5, 11:08 am, Frobernik <nos...(a)nospam.com> wrote:
> David Mark wrote:
> > "Don't worry, Kenny."
>
> Someone needs to kill Kenny (OMG) and get rid of his audience

No worries. AFAIK, he has no audience.

>
> > "he seems like the only sane person in this crazy world..."
>
> Sanity is inversely proportional to the amount of badly written code
>

Yes. Once informed, using something as appalling as qooxdoo is
clearly an insane thing to do. I read recently that the odd name is
supposed to be prounounced "cooks do". That's not far from "kooks
do". :)

From: Kenneth Tilton on 6 Jun 2010 01:43

Frobernik wrote:
> David Mark wrote:
>> "Don't worry, Kenny."
>
> Someone needs to kill Kenny (OMG) and get rid of his audience
>
>> "he seems like the only sane person in this crazy world..."
>
> Sanity is inversely proportional to the amount of badly written code

What do you think of jsMath?

Wait till you see my next screen shot. Uses jsMath. You will all come
crawling to me begging forgiveness and asking to worship at my alter.

I will be gracious.

kenny

--
http://www.stuckonalgebra.com
"The best Algebra tutorial program I have seen... in a class by itself."
Macworld

From: David Mark on 6 Jun 2010 11:29

From: David Mark on 6 Jun 2010 17:09

On Jun 6, 1:43 am, Kenneth Tilton <kentil...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Frobernik wrote:
> > David Mark wrote:
> >> "Don't worry, Kenny."
>
> > Someone needs to kill Kenny (OMG) and get rid of his audience
>
> >> "he seems like the only sane person in this crazy world..."
>
> > Sanity is inversely proportional to the amount of badly written code
>
> What do you think of jsMath?
>

Oh, jsMath. Silly me, I looked at mathjs. Still, you can't swing a
dead cat around Google Code without hitting some laughably
preposterous JS. To wit:-

"use strict";

Cargo cult copy and paste. Not a promising start.

/**
* An extension to the Array object that filters out repeated values.
* @return(Array) Returns the filtered array.
*/
if (Array.unique === undefined) {
Array.prototype.unique = function Array_unique() {

Fail (miserably). Array is a function, so the first test is nonsense
(and is followed by at least a dozen identical blunders). NFE too.
Strike three.

And up comes jsMath:-

if (!window.jsMath) {jsMath = {}}

Strikes one and two. We've already covered the first. The second is
an undeclared variable (a la Dojo). Maybe he heard they were
faster. :)

if (!jsMath.Script) {jsMath.Script = {}}

jsMath.Script.Uncompress = function (data) {
for (var k = 0; k < data.length; k++) {
var d = data[k]; var n = d.length;
for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) {if (typeof(d[i]) == 'number') {d[i] =
d[d[i]]}}
data[k] = d.join('');
}
eval(data.join(''));

He's out of there. :(

Was there a point to this Kenny? The only pattern I see is that
authors of free scripts try their damnedest to foul up everything. A
roster stocked with these things will lose 100+ games every season.
But if you refuse to learn for yourself, I guess you have no choice
but to suffer perpetual futility.

From: Kenneth Tilton on 6 Jun 2010 19:45

David Mark wrote:
> On Jun 6, 1:43 am, Kenneth Tilton <kentil...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Frobernik wrote:
>>> David Mark wrote:
>>>> "Don't worry, Kenny."
>>> Someone needs to kill Kenny (OMG) and get rid of his audience
>>>> "he seems like the only sane person in this crazy world..."
>>> Sanity is inversely proportional to the amount of badly written code
>> What do you think of jsMath?
>>
>
> Oh, jsMath. Silly me, I looked at mathjs. Still, you can't swing a
> dead cat around Google Code without hitting some laughably
> preposterous JS. To wit:-
>
> "use strict";
>
>
> Cargo cult copy and paste. Not a promising start.
>
>
> /**
> * An extension to the Array object that filters out repeated values.
> * @return(Array) Returns the filtered array.
> */
> if (Array.unique === undefined) {
> Array.prototype.unique = function Array_unique() {
>
>
> Fail (miserably). Array is a function, so the first test is nonsense
> (and is followed by at least a dozen identical blunders). NFE too.
> Strike three.
>
> And up comes jsMath:-
>
> if (!window.jsMath) {jsMath = {}}
>
>
> Strikes one and two. We've already covered the first. The second is
> an undeclared variable (a la Dojo). Maybe he heard they were
> faster. :)
>
>
> if (!jsMath.Script) {jsMath.Script = {}}
>
> jsMath.Script.Uncompress = function (data) {
> for (var k = 0; k < data.length; k++) {
> var d = data[k]; var n = d.length;
> for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) {if (typeof(d[i]) == 'number') {d[i] =
> d[d[i]]}}
> data[k] = d.join('');
> }
> eval(data.join(''));
>
>
> He's out of there. :(
>
> Was there a point to this Kenny?

Yeah, I have now created a wysiwyg maths editor for web applications,
with TeX-quality typesetting. Using jsMath.

Oh, and the author of jsMath (now being succeeded by MathJax, to support
MathML) is pretty cool, does very good work, and does so without being a
jerk about it.

> The only pattern I see is that
> authors of free scripts try their damnedest to foul up everything. A
> roster stocked with these things will lose 100+ games every season.
> But if you refuse to learn for yourself, I guess you have no choice
> but to suffer perpetual futility.

I'll come crawling back here when I need your help. :)

kt

--
http://www.stuckonalgebra.com
"The best Algebra tutorial program I have seen... in a class by itself."
Macworld

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