On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Patty <pa...@cruzio.com> wrote: > Hi Chris - I am just learning JavaScript and this was helpful to me, not a > rant. I am reading JavaScript: The Good Parts so he is jumping around in > topic and I can just use this when learning about dates and ints coming up.
Hehe. Just that it was helpful doesn't make it not-a-rant, but I'm glad there was some value in it. There's probably more value in people's offered suggestions than in my original moan, though. I'm going to have to start looking into a few of them; there's probably one that I can sell to my boss as "Hey, we need this". CoffeeScript looks interesting, but I'm somewhat worried that it's only going to add its own restrictions on top of Javascript's, changing syntax without really improving very much. It does look cool, though. (But I disagree with it (and Python) on points such as non-declared variables.) Since it's a new language (we don't use Ruby here yet), I don't think I can justify it to my boss - any new language would have to be learned by more people than just me. On the flip side, I might play around with it for my own web site at some point. Thanks for the tips, all. This is what makes a good mailing list - helpful people! Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
