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Re: Server-Side JavaScript

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Daniel Pitts wrote:

> On 7/11/12 10:17 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:41:04 -0700, Daniel Pitts
>> <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> wrote:
>>> On 7/11/12 4:59 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>>>> Dear JavaScripters:
>>>>
>>>>        I have invested so much time in JavaScript that I would prefer
>>>> not to have a third language (besides JavaScript and T-SQL).

OMG.

>>>>        I would really appreciate some URLs to good reading on
>>>> server-side JavaScript: how to get going, reasonable examples,
>>>> security issues, et al.
>>> Search for Node.js, it is server-side JavaScript. Although limiting
>>> yourself to "no more than n languages" is an artificial limitation which
>>> may lead to sub-optimal implementations.
>>
>>       node.js?  Thank you.  I will be searching.
>>
>>       That might well be on the languages, but I want to get something
>> implemented.  It has taken me way too long to learn JavaScript.  "The
>> perfect is the enemy of the good." or words to that effect.
> I like to suggest you consider either a PHP or Java back-end. Those are
> both far more popular for server-side web-coding than JavaScript,
> although Node.js may be in the process of changing that.

Why is that relevant?  Use the best tool for the job that is available.  If 
that is Google V8 JavaScript, so be it.  It would even be on-topic here for 
a change.


PointedEars
-- 
> If you get a bunch of authors […] that state the same "best practices"
> in any programming language, then you can bet who is wrong or right...
Not with javascript. Nonsense propagates like wildfire in this field.
  -- Richard Cornford, comp.lang.javascript, 2011-11-14

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Server-Side JavaScript Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-07-11 16:59 -0700
  Re: Server-Side JavaScript Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-07-11 18:41 -0700
    Re: Server-Side JavaScript Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-07-11 22:17 -0700
      Re: Server-Side JavaScript Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-07-12 09:26 -0700
        Re: Server-Side JavaScript "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2012-07-12 17:31 +0000
          Re: Server-Side JavaScript Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-07-12 16:28 -0700
            Re: Server-Side JavaScript Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-07-12 20:52 -0700
              Re: Server-Side JavaScript "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2012-07-13 06:53 +0000
        Re: Server-Side JavaScript Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-07-13 18:33 +0200
  Re: Server-Side JavaScript Ross McKay <au.org.zeta.at.rosko@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-14 09:12 +1000

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