Quotes of the week

Posted Dec 15, 2011 11:18 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by raven667
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Until they started implementing half of it in JavaScript!

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Posted Dec 15, 2011 14:21 UTC (Thu) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link] (3 responses)

That's a great decision. The code is beautiful (compare to glib code in C) and javascript interprets are blazingly fast these days.

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Posted Dec 15, 2011 14:45 UTC (Thu) by Seegras (guest, #20463) [Link] (1 responses)

JavaScript, as explained on http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-an...

"1995 - Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript."

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Posted Dec 15, 2011 17:38 UTC (Thu) by alexl (guest, #19068) [Link]

Yeah, because clearly that page implies that gnome should keep using C:

1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.

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Posted Dec 15, 2011 15:19 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

If JavaScript is better than your other code, then you have a serious problem.