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Re:Every app has a scary basement—dark old mysterious code vital to it...
on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @02:59PM (#1669752)
I think this puts into words the potential benefit I see in approaches like Google's GWT, which uses Java's ability to describe strict separations to separate "hairy cross-browser engineering fiddliness" from "view intent".
I did say "potential". :-) And the same lesson definitely applies beyond the need to separate UI concerns, but that issue seems to get the tangliest the fastest.