On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Sean M. Burke wrote:
> At 02:23 PM 2000-11-28 -0200, Julian Monteiro wrote:
> >[...]
> >That's it. I'm trying to make a Robot who evaluate the Javascript
> >code, like most modern browsers, the mozilla SpiderMonkey can do that, no?
> >[...]
>
> At the Perl Conference this year, I vaguely remember a talk being scheduled
> to discuss an open source Java(ECMA)Script implementation called "Tibet",
> if I recall. I missed the talk, tho, as I couldn't find the room.
>
> I've always meant to do something like whipping up a JavaScript
> interpreter, but I have a bad feeling it'd involve having to cater to all
> sorts of idiocies in the implementation of JS under MSIE and Netscape. And
> I have very little patience for that twisted little wreck of a language.
>
> But on a lighter note: I have a feeling that a stab at a simple interpreter
> could deal with 90% of the JS out there.
>
> And: I bet that some clever person could (or has already?) excised the JS
> interpreter from Mozilla, and could make it sort of stand on its own.
Already done: http://www.mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/
--
Liam Quinn
