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Re: Javascript replacing Java?

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On 5/15/2017 7:55 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> I had a brief tussle with JavaScript and gave up on it because:
>
> 1) I like strongly typed languages because I appreciate the compile-time
> error checking that these languages support.

I like strongly typed language also (in fact I like those
even more strongly typed than Java).

But different contexts require different solutions. I don't
think it makes sense to require strong typing in all contexts.

In fact I am pretty sure that your favorite shell script
language is not strong typed.

If you want JavaScript with strong typing then use TypeScript,
then you can have strong typing (I believe there is a command
line option to disable implicit any) and it gets transpiled
to regular JavaScript.

>                                                 At the time I tried it,
> JavaScript seemed to have a policy of leaving all error detection until
> the flawed statement was actually executed. Of course, this has major
> implications for unit test coverage, but somehow I doubt that this is
> widely understood.
>
> Even awk, a traditional UNIX scripting language with a compile-and-go
> style of runtime interpreter has always been much better at error
> detection than JavaScript was in my experience.

I am not a JS guy so I can not offer any advice here.

> 2) I learn languages best by reading books but I was utterly unable to
> find even a barely adequate book on JavaScript. The O'Reilly book I
> eventually ended up with was one of their worst, little more than a
> recipe book for JavaScript fragments. It had no satisfactory description
> of the language constructs and syntax. Even comp.lang.javascript was
> unable to suggest a good book.

Given that JavaScript is one of the worlds most widely used
languages, then I would have expected there to be some good
books.

I would definitely look for totally new books. Old books or
revisions of old books will probably focus on 00's client
side JavaScript code.

But again I am not qualified to suggest a specific
book.

Arne

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Javascript replacing Java? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-05-03 07:24 -0700
  Re: Javascript replacing Java? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-05-03 10:51 -0400
    Re: Javascript replacing Java? Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2017-05-04 05:52 +0800
      Re: Javascript replacing Java? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-05-03 23:14 -0400
        Re: Javascript replacing Java? a.laforgia@gmail.com - 2017-05-05 14:44 -0700
          Re: Javascript replacing Java? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-05-05 22:28 -0400
            Re: Javascript replacing Java? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-05-06 13:25 +0000
              Re: Javascript replacing Java? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 05:14 -0700
                Re: Javascript replacing Java? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-05-08 17:58 +0000
                Re: Javascript replacing Java? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 13:12 -0700
                Re: Javascript replacing Java? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-05-08 22:23 +0000
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              Re: Javascript replacing Java? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-05-14 20:30 -0400
                Re: Javascript replacing Java? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-05-15 11:55 +0000
                Re: Javascript replacing Java? a.laforgia@gmail.com - 2017-05-15 10:46 -0700
                Re: Javascript replacing Java? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-05-15 19:49 +0000
                Re: Javascript replacing Java? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-05-15 19:08 -0400
                Re: Javascript replacing Java? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-05-16 10:43 +0000
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                Re: Javascript replacing Java? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-05-16 12:23 +0000
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