How can people not *love* JavaScript? :) Take for example this excerpt from 'JavaScript: the Good Parts':
"The new function object is given a prototype property whose value is an object containing a constructor property whose value is the new function object" (PS: that is not one of the "good parts") On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Michael Gardner <gardne...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Oct 29, 2010, at 11:09 PM, David Nolen wrote: > > > JS brought me to Lisp, I would love to see the Clojure community bring > Lisp back to JS. However I fail to see what advantage JS gives on the server > side. From what I've seen the V8 GC and Node.js have a considerable number > of years to go before they are serious contenders against the JVM for > non-trivial projects, evented or no. > > Agreed. What is the point of Javascript on the server side? Familiarity? > Consistency with client-side code? > > > More interesting would be something along the lines of CoffeeScript (like > ClojureScript) that takes a reasonable subset Clojure and compiles into > efficient JS, allowing Clojure programmers to send Clojure code to clients. > > Yes! Writing Javascript makes me want to throw things. Client-side Clojure > would be fantastic. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
