Hi John, On Thursday 15 Jul 2010 18:57:53 John Redford wrote: > Asa Martin wrote: > Sadly, I cannot recommend a good book on JavaScript, which is a shame > because JavaScript is one of the best-designed languages ever. Perl is > actually a pretty good background to learn JavaScript, because it has a > number of similar features (regexps, closures, dynamic typing) and also has > a object oriented programming style that is built on minimal language > support. https://developer.mozilla.org/En/JavaScript -- This is as good as > it gets. >
"JavaScript is one of the best-designed languages ever". You don't appear to be joking. In order to counter that, I'll link to my newly unveiled "Don't Abuse JavaScript!" page: http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/javascript/ I point to many shortcomings of JavaScript there and encourage people not to extend its use to other realms outside web-browser scripting. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ The Case for File Swapping - http://shlom.in/file-swap God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
