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Re: "i = i|0"

From Martin Shobe <martin.shobe@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript, comp.lang.c
Subject Re: "i = i|0"
Date 2014-06-12 19:48 -0500
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <lndhoh$3qh$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References (9 earlier) <1894582.2ZI1QNF3Jn@PointedEars.de> <5399D2AA.6010100@verizon.net> <2396275.g7lyTkyHjg@PointedEars.de> <20140612134628.144@kylheku.com> <2151521.roT7KvbrzH@PointedEars.de>

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On 6/12/2014 6:22 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>
>> On 2014-06-12, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> wrote:
>>>> I did indeed search the Web. The Wikipedia page for JavaScript says
>>>> "JavaScript (JS) is a dynamic computer programming language". so you'll
>>>> have to forgive me for thinking that there might be some truth in that
>>>> statement.
>>>
>>> First one has to define what “dynamic programming language” means.
>>
>> Very easy. A dynamic programming language is characterized by late binding
>> features. For instance, type is principally a run-time property of
>> values/objects, rather than of pieces of program source code. Functions
>> and types may defined and redefined while the program is running.  These
>> capabilities would be a bare minimum.  Dynamic languages also usually
>> exhibit introspection: various entities that describe the program, and
>> which disappear after compile time in static languages tend to be
>> available in a useful run-time representation in dynamic languages. For
>> instance "class" or "variable name" might be strictly compile-time
>> concepts in a static language, but in a dynamic language they might be
>> run-time values of some sort.
>
> That is an interesting definition that you have just made up.  And it does
> not fully apply to JavaScript (or other ECMAScript implementations) either.
>

No it's not a definition that he just made up. See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming_language
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4913105/what-qualifies-a-programming-language-as-dynamic
http://wiki.tcl.tk/13325

Martin Shobe

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Re: "i = i|0" Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2014-06-11 21:09 +0000
  Re: "i = i|0" James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-06-11 17:37 -0400
    Re: "i = i|0" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-12 00:56 +0200
      Re: "i = i|0" raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2014-06-12 11:41 +0000
        Re: "i = i|0" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-12 14:28 +0200
      Re: "i = i|0" James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-06-12 08:19 -0400
        Re: "i = i|0" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-12 14:45 +0200
          Re: "i = i|0" James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-06-12 09:25 -0400
            Re: "i = i|0" raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2014-06-12 14:50 +0000
              Re: "i = i|0" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-12 16:55 +0200
                Re: "i = i|0" Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-06-12 11:28 -0700
                Re: "i = i|0" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-12 20:46 +0200
                Re: "i = i|0" Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-06-12 20:58 +0200
                Re: "i = i|0" Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-06-12 19:20 +0000
                Re: "i = i|0" Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-06-12 22:13 +0200
                Re: "i = i|0" Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-06-12 21:15 +0000
                Re: "i = i|0" Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-06-12 23:59 +0200
                Re: "i = i|0" Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-06-13 01:10 +0200
                Re: "i = i|0" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-13 01:52 +0200
                ECMAScript standards (was: "i = i|0") Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-15 12:53 +0200
                Re: "i = i|0" Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2014-06-12 17:11 -0500
                Re: "i = i|0" Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-06-12 22:40 +0000
                Re: "i = i|0" glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-06-12 22:44 +0000
                Re: "i = i|0" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-13 01:16 +0200
                Re: "i = i|0" raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2014-06-16 12:55 +0000
                Re: "i = i|0" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-16 22:44 +0200
                Re: "i = i|0" Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2014-06-13 19:16 +0200
                Re: "i = i|0" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-13 19:21 +0200
                Re: "i = i|0" Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-13 18:24 +0100
                Re: "i = i|0" Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-06-13 21:25 +0000
            Re: "i = i|0" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-12 17:13 +0200
              Re: "i = i|0" raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2014-06-12 15:20 +0000
                Re: "i = i|0" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-12 17:32 +0200
                Re: "i = i|0" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-17 12:30 +0200
              Re: "i = i|0" James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-06-12 12:17 -0400
                Re: "i = i|0" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-12 20:01 +0200
                Re: "i = i|0" James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-06-12 16:13 -0400
                Re: "i = i|0" glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-06-12 20:44 +0000
                Re: "i = i|0" Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-06-12 20:59 +0000
                Re: "i = i|0" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-13 01:22 +0200
                Re: "i = i|0" Martin Shobe <martin.shobe@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-12 19:48 -0500
                Re: "i = i|0" "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2014-06-12 18:32 -0700
                Re: "i = i|0" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-13 12:12 +0200
                Re: "i = i|0" John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2014-06-13 10:16 +0100
                Re: "i = i|0" Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-13 11:44 +0100
          Re: "i = i|0" "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-06-12 15:06 +0100
            Re: "i = i|0" Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-12 16:54 +0200

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