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On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 03:45:07PM -0700, David Wheeler wrote: > 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 (maybe one can hack around that in Rhino, but I > haven't played with it, yet). > > http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/ > > So, without I/O, all you can do is ask the JavaScript host (Mozilla, > IE, Safari, whatever) to do it for you. They don't provide a general > way, either, so you have to use the DOM to create a new script element. So I have to write a hack which depends on the JS implementation to work around a blanket security measure. BRILLIANT! Classic, too. > The upshot is that I don't think that there can ever be a CJSAN. Pity. Yes. Alas. :( And now for a generalized and vaguely productive hate: "Early Decisions All Language Designers Will Regret" http://use.perl.org/~schwern/journal/24082 Join in. Its fun!There's stuff above here
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