Stanford CS101 Adopts Javascript

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/183246/Stanford-CS101-Adopts-JavaScript

lol

Well, it's a cross between the semantic beauty of Lisp and the relatively usable syntax of C.  I'd say it's a pretty good language to start with.

What's to ``lol'' about? JS is a pretty good language, outside of the web context, type coercion and function for constructors aside.

GJS

Coincidence?

I think not.

>>4
GNU JavaScript.

>>3
What's lol is that Lisp is getting beat out of academia by the language used to serve popup adverts. Lispers, despite their shitty language, could always take pride in the fact that the top CS programs incorporate Scheme, and now it's getting replaced by real-world, productive languages.

>>6
You're late to the party, brah. Scheme was already out of MIT and Lisp ceased to dominate on the AI field. It doesn't matter to us, we enjoy it, we appreciate it aesthetically, something which you can't take from us nor, sadly, understand.

Anyway, back to Stack Overflow, please.

>>6
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2745646
Well, shit.
I also don't remember Stanford loving much Lisp/Scheme.

>>7
There are lots of Lispers over at Stack Overflow.

>>9
Actually, yes. Well, maybe not ``lots'', but you can find them. It was more for his obsession with the ``real world'' and with scalable turnkey solutions based on industry-standard employable technology which lowers your bus number that makes him blind to anything but writing enterprise applications in C++ or Java. Of course IHBT, but fuck it, maybe something will come out if I respond in earnest.

>>10
YHBT

>>2
semantic beauty of lisp
javascript
wat

>>12
True story. Semantic beauty of Scheme.

>>13
WHAT

JavaScript wins again

JavaScript and Scheme aren't that different.

This is disgusting.

Is this part of the javascript conspiracy

>>18
Yeah, there is insidious conspiracy to corrupt and defile WWWeb Inernet pages by adding "Japan Script" which allows those nips to hack the systems and subvert US economy.

Are the Jews responsible?

>>19
THE GOOD
- JavaScript is adopted in every significant browser, and as so it is one of the most popular programming languages in the world.
- JavaScript is a good programming language. Most developers agree with this. It's down to earth, has a good enough feature set, implements good concepts from both the object oriented and functional programming mindsets.

THE BAD
- JavaScript is incomplete. Several functional programming features that'd make sense in it are lacking.
- JavaScript is insecure. There's no module system, it's impossible to encapsulate things properly.
- JavaScript is browser only. The lack of a decent standard pushes people away from server-side and compiled JavaScript.

THE UGLY
- Million dollar companies are interested in million dollar franchises. Java, C# make a lot of money for a lot of people.
- Companies are shit-scared of anything they can't control. Even if their product is good and everybody wants to use it, it must be their product. It is no wonder C++ isn't nearly as popular as it was a few years ago. C++ wasn't Sun's, wasn't Microsoft's, wasn't Adobe's; it was Bjarne's.
- The number of JavaScript developers is growing exponentially. The more people use the Internet, the more JavaScript developers show up. What if they decise to use their dear language in their desktop applications? Who could stop them? What would be the faith of Java and .NET?
- JavaScript is, at the same time, both a free language (because it's easy to implement and widely adopted in browsers, the commonest pieces of software today) and a controlled one (the ECMA standard obeys the decisions of giant corporate players).

CONNECT THE DOTS.

>>21
What if they decise to use their dear language in their desktop applications? Who could stop them?

Too late, windows 8 anyone?

Back to your question, something similar, little faster more fancy and as stupid.
Possible LUA

>>21
implements good concepts from both the object oriented and functional programming mindsets.
You can leverage the skillsets of many functional programmers while retaining the industry-standard object-oriented best practices to avoid the cost of a paradigm shift.

>>23
You should optimize your ^pos_ts so that they s^cale better with next-generation BBCode platforms. It is considered a good practice as it enables a richer /prog/ ^browsing experience.

>>22
LUA
all caps

obviously you know nothing.

>>25
>implying you know something, considering how you don't know how to quote

>>26
>implying
return _thyself to /.*/, ``imageboard scum''[/i]!![/i]

>>27
enjoy yo'ure bbcode failure, fagstorm

nigger