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yid on July 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bruce Eckel on JavaScript

"normalize" is a relative term. Does CPAN normalize Perl? Does STL normalize C++? The prevalence of a suite of libraries and tools is a good thing.

nirvdrum on July 18, 2011 [–]

Perhaps "language" was the wrong term, but "execution environment" might work. jQuery allows one to treat browsers uniformly so you're not dealing with DOM quirks all over the place. CoffeeScript is designed to basically replace JavaScript syntax. CPAN wouldn't really be a fair comparison, but boost would be.

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