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Re: Source of the Python Translator to Javascript

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Salvatore DI DIO wrote:

> Hello Thomas,

This is a newsgroup, not an Internet chat.
 
> Thank you very much for your arguments.
> 
> You wrote :
> 
>     "...Please do not attempt to write translators before you have a fair
>     knowledge about what you are translating into (and from)....
> 
> - I am not the genius creator of RapydScript.

I don't care; and as for “genius”, that remains to be seen.

> - RapydScript is by no means a direct translation Python -> Javascript.

So far I consider it junk.  Prove me wrong.
 
> See for example this valid syntax in RapydScript :
> 
> (def greet(name = "Paul"):
>     alert(name)
> )()
> 
> This has nothing to do with Python syntax, isn't it ?

I don't care.  You have claimed that it could be used to “translate” Python 
to “Javascript”, whatever you think the latter is.
 
> You have to think of RapydScript as a mean to faciltate Javascript
> programming.

I have to think of RapydScript as a program written by people who do not 
know ECMAScript for people who do not know ECMAScript, like yourself, by 
now.

> It transparently uses any existant libraries.

You do not appear to have the slightest clue what you are talking about.
 
> It's scope is ablolutely not to implement Python syntax, that is the scope
> of Brython

I don't care.  The ECMAScript code produced by it is not equivalent, 
therefore useless.  One can write better ECMAScript code without it.
 
> Go to the official site and see how RapydScript is implemented and why.

You have failed to give me sufficient incentive to do that.
 
> In case of you don't want to go to the main site, you can read the copy of
> the main page, below
> […]
> [100+ lines of spam]

Apparently you have much to learn.

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Source of the Python Translator to Javascript Salvatore DI DIO <salvatore.didio@gmail.com> - 2013-11-18 03:14 -0800
  Re: Source of the Python Translator to Javascript Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-18 13:03 +0100
  Re: Source of the Python Translator to Javascript Salvatore DI DIO <salvatore.didio@gmail.com> - 2013-11-18 05:07 -0800
    Re: Source of the Python Translator to Javascript Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-18 14:49 +0100
      Re: Source of the Python Translator to Javascript Salvatore DI DIO <salvatore.didio@gmail.com> - 2013-11-18 07:10 -0800

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