On Friday, April 5, 2013 7:01:50 PM UTC+1, Peter wrote: > > Thanks for replying, Frederick. So help me understand this: > javascript-runtime is actually the javascript interpreter. Right? But what > is odd is when I install node-js this solves my problem. And I thought > node-js *was* written in javascript. Therefore, it itself requires an > interpreter. Did I get this wrong? So how does installing node-js, a > javascript script, solve the problem of not having a javascript interpreter > to begin with? > > node-js is both both google V8 javascript engine plus some libraries (much as for example ruby is the ruby interpreter plus a bunch of standard library stuff)
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