Re: C++

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: C++
Date: 18:05 on 02 Mar 2004
> > Python... um, if Python's in the C family then so is FORTRAN and RPG.

> That may be, but Javascript's closer to Python than it is to Java, the 
> name and braces notwithstanding.

In the sense that Javascript is closer to Python than it is to Java, any
sane object-oriented language is closer to Python than it is to Java. That's
like saying a swallow is in the same family as a bat because they can both
fly, and pointing to the emu as proof the swallow isn't a bird. :)

> > Is there a good command-line JS interpreter out there?

> http://www.mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/

Can that be built without having to set up the whole Mozilla tree around
it yet? I started poking at it once and panicked.

> Annoyingly there are two seperate modules tying Spidermonkey to Perl, 
> but neither's been taken far enough to be really useful.

Um.

Hell with useful, I can't figure out how it would be meaningful.

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