Subj : Re: ECMAScript standards committee
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Shanti Rao
Date : Tue Oct 12 2004 06:09 pm

Brendan Eich wrote:
> Shanti Rao wrote:
>> Georg Maaß wrote:
>>
>>> Why should JavaScript 2.0 less stable than JavaScript 1.5?
>>
>> Did you notice now long JS1.5 was under development? JSVERSION_1_5 got 
>> added in Sept 1999. Five years later, there are still a few bugs.
> 
> There are always bugs in any non-trivial, evolving codebase.  If you 

Apparently so. There sure are plenty in the stuff I write. But the risk of 
running into one and the severity if you do has decreased dramatically.

Hence my reticence to embrace JS2, when JS1.5 works adequately.

> Complete redesign of the language is not under discussion.  

That's very comforting.

Shanti

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