Thread: is learning javascript & PHP a good step towards learning gscript?
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Old 07-10-2010, 05:01 AM
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Originally Posted by cbk1994 View Post
I'd assume he probably means fully-compatible syntax. Obviously things like the DOM wouldn't be transferred to Graal so you wouln't be able to copy/paste visual JavaScript (functional things like algorithms would work though).
It would be really awesome if this happened--Javascript is kind of well-defined as a language even without the DOM. But right now there are so many fundamental differences in how the two even work that I suspect being able to directly copy algorithms is a very long way off.
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