> From: Eric Hamilton <dil...@dilvie.com> > "JavaScript is The Most Important Programming Language on Earth" - > http://ericleads.com/2010/10/javascript-revolution/
Reads heavily like a press release loaded with buzzwords and fanboy-ism. > To use JavaScript as a server side administrative scripting > environment, all you need is Node.JS. Hmm. Using JavaScript as an administrative scripting language... I don't know how I feel about that. Knowing that it was designed specifically for the web, makes it seem like a hack getting it to perform in fuction like Bash, Perl or the others. > You get the most expressive and powerful OO environment anywhere, That's a balsy claim, definitely considering some heavyweights like Perl, Python and Ruby. How about a comparison of JavaScript to Perl or the others? Could lead to an interesting discussion. My only reservations would be getting node.js installed on other platforms such as Solaris or HPUX, and if the scripts are truly portable across those platforms. Also, assuming admins know JavaScript is a bit of a stretch. Unless they've done some decent web development, I don't think I would make that claim. So future maintainability of an admin script written in JavaScript probabily won't go far. -- . o . o . o . . o o . . . o . . . o . o o o . o . o o . . o o o o . o . . o o o o . o o o
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