[Rails-spinoffs] Re: Can't understand this wierd scripting

[Brad Ediger]

Actually, this has dates of introduction for each of the major languages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_languages On Oct 13, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Brad Ediger wrote: According to Wikipedia, Perl was introduced in 1987; JS was first introduced into Netscape 2.0B3 in 1995. Not sure about that global timeline, though. On Oct 13, 2006, at 12:23 PM, Ryan Gahl wrote: Is Perl older than _javascript_ or (whatever it was initially called by Netscape, I always forget)? Interesting trivia... anyone know of like a global timeline of languages? ...wonder if wikipedia has one... On 10/13/06, Brad Ediger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ruby and Perl do this. IIRC, it started off as a Perl idiom. On Oct 13, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Ken Snyder wrote: Is this "defaulting" behavior found in any other languages besides _javascript_?  I tried it in PHP; PHP seems to always return true or false; --Ken Brad Ediger wrote: ... {a: 3} || {}   // ==> {a: 3} null   || {}   // ==> {}     null   || 0    // ==> 0      -- Ryan Gahl Application Development Consultant Athena Group, Inc. Inquire: 1-920-954-9798 x2903 Blog: http://www.someElement.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-spinoffs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---