Re: Invalid Operating System

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From: Peter da Silva
Subject: Re: Invalid Operating System
Date: 18:04 on 17 Dec 2006
On Dec 17, 2006, at 11:08 AM, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> Agreed. After all, it's roughly a cross between Self and Perl...

It's more like a C-styled version of Self, without the Smalltalk/Self 
dependance on the GUI and snapshots. What of Perl has seeped into it 
has largely been the stuff that Perl borrowed from languages that 
sucked less in the first place.

> I note that Javascript has regex literals...

Case in point, this is borrowed from awk and sed (and one of the things 
that SHOULDN'T have been borrowed so directly). I hadn't really noticed 
this one before (I don't use Javascript as much as I would like to 
because there isn't a good standalone javascript that's generally 
available), so thank you for making Javascript hateful to me. At least 
they apply some restraint and don't try and emulate awk/sed precisely.

> The OO models of JS and Perl are in fact amusingly similar.

They're both template-based, anyway. I guess template-based instead of 
class-based languages are pretty rare, though.

There's stuff above here

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