Re: Javascript: Time Traveller From the Year 1962!

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Javascript: Time Traveller From the Year 1962!
Date: 01:35 on 09 Apr 2005

> > My understanding from talking to some JS folks on IRC is that 
> > JavaScript was never designed to do I/O. Too much of a security threat 
> > in browsers. Of course, this makes it practically useless as a 
> > general-use language

Why? There's no I/O in C and it managed it.

> So I have to write a hack which depends on the JS implementation to work
> around a blanket security measure. 

You mean, like C code that depends on UNIX I/O, or stdio?

There's stuff above here

Michael G Schwern 00:13 on 09 Apr 2005
- peter (Peter da Silva) 01:35 on 09 Apr 2005
  - Michael G Schwern 01:59 on 09 Apr 2005
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Chris Winters 01:11 on 09 Apr 2005
- David Wheeler 01:20 on 09 Apr 2005
  - peter (Peter da Silva) 01:46 on 09 Apr 2005
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- peter (Peter da Silva) 13:30 on 09 Apr 2005

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