For javascript *the language* this is a good watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXEgk1Hdze0
However I believe that the language view is a bit dated. On Apr 16, 9:50 pm, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps having a minimal core works well for node.js, but Python is much, > much better off having its > batteries included. Standalone this statement is hardly arguable. However combine it with your other statement > Python's package management is suboptimal (though it is being worked on), and a different picture emerges, viz that *the ecosystem around the language matters more than the language* Ive talked about this in my blog http://blog.languager.org/2011/02/cs-education-is-fat-and-weak-1.html and following (Warning: CS teacher's bias) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
