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| From | Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns |
| Date | 2016-05-07 00:04 +1000 |
| Message-ID | <mailman.431.1462543459.32212.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
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On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 11:45 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote: >> JavaScript is terrible. Really, really bad. And because of that, it >> has the potential to sweep the world. > > If your reasoning is correct, it'll never be able to overtake PHP. > > I've never written anything over a hundred or two lines in JavaScript, > but for small stuff it seems OK -- though as others have noted there > are some oddly missing batteries that result in use of a lot of small > external libraries for things that any C, PHP, or Python user would > have expected to be in the standard library. Except that it's pretty easy to switch out PHP for Python, or anything else. JavaScript is what it is because it's hard to just use a different language. ChrisA
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After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-04 18:59 +1000
Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 13:44 +0000
Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-05-04 17:44 +0300
Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2016-05-04 11:35 -0700
Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 20:49 -0600
Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-05-06 12:53 +1000
Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-05-06 20:51 +1200
Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-05-06 19:09 +1000
Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-05-06 11:11 -0700
Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> - 2016-05-06 13:45 +0000
Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-05-07 00:04 +1000
Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Laurent Pointal <laurent.pointal@free.fr> - 2016-05-07 18:54 +0200
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