On 10/13/06, Brad Ediger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually, this has dates of introduction for each of the major 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
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