MS's replacement for JS

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Anders-Hejlsberg-Introducing-TypeScript
Well it looks like Anders took the sensible approach, dont replace JS with an entirely new language like Google is trying to do with Dart because it will never win. But rather translate a statically typed class based language into existing JS compilers. JS is a great language to port languages to, as far as I know it is probably the most popular language for doing this. So it will be interesting to see how the optional type system holds up to large scale apps.

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Im pretty sure John McCarthy is not jewish. He has an irish name, he looks irish. His parents were driven to California to work picking fruit due to the depression/dust bowl of the 30s. Despite having hardly any education, he went to a library, read some math books at around 14 or 15 and was immediately admitted into CalTech as a math genius.