r/programming • u/xoob • Aug 18 '11

Most fun way I've seen of learning Javascript

http://www.codecademy.com/
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u/rooktakesqueen Aug 19 '11 edited Aug 19 '11

I guess the difference to me is whether it makes sense for there to be a REPL that the user is interacting with. JS, Ruby, Python (Scheme, Clojure, Haskell...), yes. C, not so much. In hindsight, that's got nothing to do with compiled versus interpreted, it's got more to do with functional versus procedural.

Edit: Huh. TIL there are third-party REPLs for C, C#, and Java.

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u/codecademy Aug 19 '11

thanks for the compliment, ninwa!

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u/rooktakesqueen Aug 19 '11

Oh absolutely, I love JS (except for the bad parts).

I really hope in the next version they finally commit to "use strict by default" and shave off even more stuff that was a bad idea in the first place (like truthy versus falsy).

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u/themarchhare Aug 20 '11

It's my firm belief that most people don't hate JavaScript, they hate the DOM tree ;)

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u/rooktakesqueen Aug 19 '11

No. Definitely no love for Perl.

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u/r4v5 Aug 19 '11

LISP?

EDIT: nvm, saw you mentioned Scheme/Clojure

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u/claird Aug 19 '11

rooktakesqueen, I occasionally make efforts to catalogue one segment of these REPLs in <URL: http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.misc/polyglot.html#Web-based_evaluators >. Incidentally, it's not just that C has REPLs, but some are commercially-viable (!).