The Classless Contender
JavaScript is a fascinating language. Not entirely by its virtues as a programming language, but mainly by its integration with web browsers. It seems to be an accident of fate that the keys to the kingdom fell into the lap of this little language, but it is extremely heartening to see the Mozilla developers push the little language that could up the hill of respectability. Hey, if we’re all going to have to use one language, it may as well be a good one. I am referring to the vaguely recent release of JavaScript 1.7 as featured in FireFox 2.0. I encourage all developers, who haven’t already, to take a look at the list of what’s new. Some really fantastic stuff there, and if you build your own SpiderMonkey you can run a program like this (with the switch -v 170),
from the command line and get the expected output of
Michael Mann's "Heat" is pretty good
Wes Anderson's "Bottle Rocket" is pretty good
Robert Rodriguez's "Desperado" is pretty good
Nothing substantive here, but just a hearty congratulations to the Mozilla devs who worked on this.
