On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Jeffery Olson <olson.jeff...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > Also: have you even given javascript a chance? Please don't let it's > history in the browser bias you against it; it's a marvelous language > with a lot of really interesting features that makes nice, expressive > code possible. I think the gnome-shell team made a *great* choice when > they chose javascript for the scripting environment and scriptmonkey > is a good engine with a great performance for our needs (with a clean, > C-based API.. putting aside the hype around v8, for now). The work the > team has done around the introspection-based bindings is excellent. > > I got a pretty decent book called "JavasScript: the Good Parts" which I recommend. It pretty much tells you what sucks and what doesn't and how to write proper javascript and avoiding parts of the language that will get you in trouble. sri
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