On Fri Jul 14, 2006 at 10:22:13 +1000, Andre Pang wrote: >On 14/07/2006, at 9:53 AM, Benno wrote: > >>So one thing that is seriously lacking in javascript has a decent >>set of standard >>library routines. (Which is one of the reasons I think python is so >>awesome.) > >Great quote that I heard somewhere once: > > "Python? That's that language like Javascript with a decent >standard library, right?"
Heh :) I don't think Python is actually that similar to javascript, but anyways ;) >>Umm, I can't remember the other things right now. ;) It was by no >>means perfect >>and had plenty of warts, but it was definately better than I was >>expecting ;) > >Also agreed. The dynamic typing kills me sometimes (is there a >static analysis tool for Javascript), but as a language it's quite >good. No standard library hurts though... the main reason I prefer C+ >+ over C these days is that the STL is at least a standard library of >good data structures. (I can see Erik starting to foam at the mouth >now :). I'm so often tempted to switch to C++ for reasons like that... and in the end decide not to... for all the other reasons I'm sure Erik will bring up ;) Benno _______________________________________________ coders mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders
