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Re: form field/spreadsheet question

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Wally W.  wrote:

> On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:55:39 +0100, Luuk wrote:
>> On 02-12-2012 05:22, Jon wrote:
>>> Where can I find an editor/..../.... for Javascript?
>>
>> Notepad.exe, or any other text-editor....
>>
>>> Where can I find an ..../compiler/.... for Javascript?
>>
>> There is no compiler for Javascript,
> 
> That is an oversight in the IT world.

Strictly speaking, what was stated is correct, because there is no 
"Javascript" language to begin with: <http://PointedEars.de/es-matrix>

Loosely speaking it is wrong, though, because ECMAScript source code in Web 
browsers and elsewhere is JIT-compiled and _not_ interpreted verbatim.  Most 
of the script engines of ECMAScript implementations compile source code to 
bytecode, executed by a Virtual Machine (this applies to Netscape/Mozilla 
JavaScript and Microsoft JScript).  Google V8 even JIT-compiles source code 
to native machine code, which part of why it is so fast by comparison.
 
>> because it is an interpreted language.
> 
> One does not follow from the other.

And since even the premise is wrong …

> Spreadsheets are also "interpreted."

Spreadsheets are not a programming language.

> That didn't stop someone from
> writing a compiler:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Easy_As

ISTM you are confusing things.
 
> How many would like a compliable web page that has:
> 1. Embedded javascript

Meaning what exactly?

> 2. A 'save as" capability to write all contents, including entered
> values, to a disk file?

That capability exists already.

> 3. An "open file" capability to resume work on or print values in a
> file placed on disk with the "save as" feature mentioned above?

That too.

> I know I would like such a compiler.

I do not think you know what a compiler is or where you are posting to, 
though.


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PointedEars
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    realism:    HTML 4.01 Strict
    evangelism: XHTML 1.0 Strict
    madness:    XHTML 1.1 as application/xhtml+xml
                                                    -- Bjoern Hoehrmann

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form field/spreadsheet question "Jon" <no-reply@no-reply.com> - 2012-12-01 23:22 -0500
  Re: form field/spreadsheet question Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-12-02 13:55 +0100
    Re: form field/spreadsheet question Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2012-12-02 12:19 -0500
      Re: form field/spreadsheet question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-12-02 19:06 +0100
        Re: form field/spreadsheet question Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2012-12-02 17:15 -0500
          Re: form field/spreadsheet question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-12-03 00:29 +0100
  Re: form field/spreadsheet question Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2012-12-02 11:27 -0700
    Re: form field/spreadsheet question "Jon" <no-reply@no-reply.com> - 2012-12-02 19:01 -0500
      spreadsheet-to-Javascript translator "Jon" <no-reply@no-reply.com> - 2012-12-02 20:06 -0500
        Re: spreadsheet-to-Javascript translator Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-12-03 10:26 -0800
    Re: form field/spreadsheet question Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-12-03 02:42 +0000

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