On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 08:44:12AM -0700, Justin Case wrote:
[...]
> JavaScript (and Java) are PROCEDURAL languages. They can make branching
> decisions and execute loops. A robot could validate the syntax of the language,
> but to find out what it "means" (e.g. to extract links for a spider) the robot
> would have to execute or emulate the instructions. In other words, a badly coded
> web page could put your robot into an infinite loop.
[...]
> So what is it you want this "interpretater" to produce?
Well, a subset of Javascript can be defined that doesn't support user
interaction and only allows very simple manipulations on values;
this could be as declarative as HTML and it would probably be useful
for most of the Javascript out there.
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