On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Axel Rauschmayer <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 17, 2011, at 4:57, Peter Michaux <[email protected]> wrote: > > The goal of pleasing compiler writers should be > to make it possible to compile existing languages like Perl, Ruby, > Python and Scheme to JavaScript. These languages are the ones that > people know and really want to use and target their compilers to > JavaScript. > > You sound like you really hate JavaScript and can’t imagine working with it > unless some other language is compiled to it.
Actually the opposite is true. I write in JavaScript all day and like it a lot. I wouldn't want to compile to JavaScript with today's possibility. What I was trying to express is that I believe dream of people who want to compile to JavaScript is to write in their server-side language of choice (e.g. Perl, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Java, etc) and compile that to JavaScript. Peter _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
