Comments on: JavaScript as a Language http://ajaxian.com/archives/javascript-as-a-language Cleaning up the web with Ajax Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:55:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Mark Holton http://ajaxian.com/archives/javascript-as-a-language/comment-page-1#comment-252385 Mark Holton Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:45:55 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=2545#comment-252385 Not everyone is as smart as you bradd, consider yourself lucky. :) It's about sharing information. I greatly appreciate the work Dion puts into this site, it provides many great pieces of info often. Not everyone is as smart as you bradd, consider yourself lucky. :) It’s about sharing information. I greatly appreciate the work Dion puts into this site, it provides many great pieces of info often.

]]> By: bradd http://ajaxian.com/archives/javascript-as-a-language/comment-page-1#comment-252365 bradd Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:04:28 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=2545#comment-252365 Is this news? Some dude, writes a book and an opinion piece, states the obvious and wow, its a headline. I have always considered JavaScript a very power programming language. I wonder why its taking others so long to see this. Is this news? Some dude, writes a book and an opinion piece, states the obvious and wow, its a headline. I have always considered JavaScript a very power programming language. I wonder why its taking others so long to see this.

]]> By: Mark Holton http://ajaxian.com/archives/javascript-as-a-language/comment-page-1#comment-252357 Mark Holton Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:30:47 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=2545#comment-252357 ...nice post (John's book is pretty good too, by the way). JavaScript is approaching 'first class citizen' status, definitely. The language has been given such a bad rap because of the different flavors in implementation (across browsers specifically), not because of the language itself. The language itself, once you start using it and understanding it, is very elegant and efficient in many ways when it comes to the web (higher order functions, dynamically typed, etc). ...it will be interesting to see how it continues to evolve not on with Mozilla's push, but also with the push from places like Google, such as Steve Yegge's port of Rails to Javascript with "Rhino on Rails". …nice post (John’s book is pretty good too, by the way). JavaScript is approaching ‘first class citizen’ status, definitely. The language has been given such a bad rap because of the different flavors in implementation (across browsers specifically), not because of the language itself. The language itself, once you start using it and understanding it, is very elegant and efficient in many ways when it comes to the web (higher order functions, dynamically typed, etc). …it will be interesting to see how it continues to evolve not on with Mozilla’s push, but also with the push from places like Google, such as Steve Yegge’s port of Rails to Javascript with “Rhino on Rails”.

]]> By: blah http://ajaxian.com/archives/javascript-as-a-language/comment-page-1#comment-252352 blah Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:39:41 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=2545#comment-252352 Oh boy I love this new layout. How will you name it? Scramble? Parkinson? Oh boy I love this new layout. How will you name it? Scramble? Parkinson?

]]> By: blah http://ajaxian.com/archives/javascript-as-a-language/comment-page-1#comment-252351 blah Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:37:40 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=2545#comment-252351 ROFL ROFL

]]> By: Mike Ritchie http://ajaxian.com/archives/javascript-as-a-language/comment-page-1#comment-252346 Mike Ritchie Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:20:16 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=2545#comment-252346 Holy sh!t dude... Dion, you should just start this page over, whatever gremlin you have in your blog text is blowing up the page bigtime Holy sh!t dude… Dion, you should just start this page over, whatever gremlin you have in your blog text is blowing up the page bigtime

]]> By: Dan http://ajaxian.com/archives/javascript-as-a-language/comment-page-1#comment-252338 Dan Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:40:16 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=2545#comment-252338 Fix it fix it fix it. At least proof read the damn thing after posting. Who posts and walks away, really? Fix it fix it fix it. At least proof read the damn thing after posting. Who posts and walks away, really?

]]> By: panda http://ajaxian.com/archives/javascript-as-a-language/comment-page-1#comment-252337 panda Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:38:44 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=2545#comment-252337 URL: http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-as-a-language URL: http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-as-a-language

]]> By: panda http://ajaxian.com/archives/javascript-as-a-language/comment-page-1#comment-252336 panda Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:38:10 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=2545#comment-252336 John Resig has a new opinion piece on <a>JavaScript as a Language that he came up with after poking around with JavaScript 2: <blockquote> I think we’ve seen the JavaScript language move through many individual phases: The “We need scripting for web pages” phase. (Netscape) The “We should standardize this” phase. (ECMAScript) The “JavaScript isn’t a toy” phase. (Ajax) The “JavaScript as a programming language” phase. I’m surmising that there’s this new phase that we’re starting to enter, one where JavaScript will be treated as a significant programming language - divorced from the concept of web development. Two significant movements lead me to believe that we’re at the start of a new era for JavaScript. </blockquote> There are some good comments to the post too (imagine that) including “Quite a few people are in phase 5 already: Javascript as a code generation target” by Doug L. -- :)</a> John Resig has a new opinion piece on JavaScript as a Language that he came up with after poking around with JavaScript 2:

I think we’ve seen the JavaScript language move through many individual phases:

The “We need scripting for web pages” phase. (Netscape)
The “We should standardize this” phase. (ECMAScript)
The “JavaScript isn’t a toy” phase. (Ajax)
The “JavaScript as a programming language” phase.

I’m surmising that there’s this new phase that we’re starting to enter, one where JavaScript will be treated as a significant programming language – divorced from the concept of web development. Two significant movements lead me to believe that we’re at the start of a new era for JavaScript.

There are some good comments to the post too (imagine that) including “Quite a few people are in phase 5 already: Javascript as a code generation target” by Doug L.

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:)

]]> By: Калоян К. Цветков http://ajaxian.com/archives/javascript-as-a-language/comment-page-1#comment-252335 Калоян К. Цветков Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:31:58 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=2545#comment-252335 Come on, fix the article! The first link has a missing quote at the end of the href. Come on, fix the article! The first link has
a missing quote at the end of the href.

]]> By: Chris Rowe http://ajaxian.com/archives/javascript-as-a-language/comment-page-1#comment-252331 Chris Rowe Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:00:02 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=2545#comment-252331 Close the " in the first link!alert("fix this site its borked"); Close the ” in the first link!alert(“fix this site its borked”);

]]> By: Pablo Cabrera http://ajaxian.com/archives/javascript-as-a-language/comment-page-1#comment-252330 Pablo Cabrera Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:58:18 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=2545#comment-252330 ?! ?!

]]> By: daroot http://ajaxian.com/archives/javascript-as-a-language/comment-page-1#comment-252329 daroot Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:56:41 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=2545#comment-252329 uh... yeah... broken? uh… yeah… broken?

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