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Re:On Leaky Abstractions and Objective-J by drwh0 on Monday December 08, 2008 @02:42PM (#390252)
And again, since Objective-J is a proper superset of JavaScript

really? what can it do that js can't do?

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Re:On Leaky Abstractions and Objective-J by docmach on Monday December 08, 2008 @02:51PM (#390273)
Being a superset of JavaScript doesn't mean it can do more, it just means that all valid JavaScript is valid Objective-J.
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Re:On Leaky Abstractions and Objective-J by jorgeortiz85 on Monday December 08, 2008 @02:51PM (#390269)
Read his first sentence again:

"There is also the issue that implementing things like method_missing and import are prohibitively difficult without new syntax."

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Re:On Leaky Abstractions and Objective-J by drwh0 on Monday December 08, 2008 @04:07PM (#390377)
"difficult" has nothing to do with the power of languages

TeX macros are fundamentally as expressive as java.

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