On: Five languages in seven lines, or how not to do web development

[jdminhbg]

I think you need to at least move the JS out and write it unobtrusively. Sticking 'onClicks' all over the place inside a templating language is a recipe for spaghetti.

[swombat → jdminhbg]

Sure, but the point is, to put together any decent web page template, you'll need at least:

1) Your server-side language (e.g. Ruby)

2) Your templating language (e.g. ERB, which may be very similar to 1)

3) HTML

4) CSS

5) Javascript

5 languages is pretty much a minimum unless you're doing something trivial. I'll agree that the onclick should be extracted, but as has been pointed out in other places, this is a quick documentation example, so it is reasonable to use onclick there to keep it brief.

PS: Also, perhaps worth pointing out that HTML and CSS aren't actually programming languages... Should they count? probably not.

[scott_s → swombat]

They're still languages, so I think they should count, because it still takes a mental context switch when going from any language to another.

[axod → swombat]

The number of languages isn't the issue. The issue is putting them all together in the space of a few lines.

It's bad organization.

[jwilliams → axod]

Actually just curious - but what is a means of separating them?