Re: ECMAStript 4, Re: Upcoming Changes to the JavaScript Language

John G Harris wrote on 03 dec 2007 in comp.lang.javascript:

It always seems to me that they wanted a language that would run fast in
a .NET virtual machine. This means having objects with fixed data fields
and methods, and every value with a fixed type. In other words they
wanted a language that ought to be called C#Script. Merging this
language with javascript is just a way of getting people to use it.

Should we see this as a positive or a negative development?

Why would 'they' not start C#Script or C+script or C++script on it's own,
rather than kill the nice peculiarities of soft typed JS to get to the same
end?

Methinks that improving a language is just for improving,
not for unrelated ends.

It is ASP-to-ASP.NET all over again.

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Evertjan.
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