On Wed, October 15, 2008 09:51, Victor Churchill wrote:
> 2008/10/15 Isaac Close <isaacclose@???>:
>>
>> its about half-eight and i've been coding all the night since about
>> half-eight lastnite. not in Perl though, in javascript. its been
>> event handlers and debugging largely. the more i learn of this language
>> the more i see some similarity with Perl. have to say though, javascript
>> has its place and is most marvelous for what it can do, but Perl is
>> still a swiss army chainsaw. i wish browsers had perl interpreters in
>> them :)
>
> I had one miserable experience long ago with JavaScript (*) - a fixed
> price 3 month contract that took six months B-(
Javascript is fine for simple stuff, but for any large application
I'd much rather have a strongly typed and compiled language, with
good debugger and IDE support.
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