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r_transpose_p

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Jul 19, 2009 21:01

http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~mds2/js_play/calculator.html

cool.

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harryh July 20 2009, 04:40:02 UTC

My reccomendation is that someone make a "translator" which can take some sensible language, and convert it into javascript.

done

r_transpose_p July 20 2009, 04:50:05 UTC

Why java? That makes no sense at all. Shit, if I just write an applet I can at least "get the draw context as an image and draw pixels to it"

I mean, I know javascripts inconsistencies are bad...

Perhaps there is something I do not yet understand about this package...

ssaiscps July 20 2009, 05:27:03 UTC

There seems to be a whole mini-industry of compiling to Javascript. SML to Javascript, a list of some more languages

r_transpose_p July 20 2009, 07:56:53 UTC

Huh, that second blog post seems very insightful...

ah, I think I understand r_transpose_p July 20 2009, 07:52:11 UTC

Part of the problem with Ruby/Python/Javascript type languages is that they are very difficult to optimize for reasons related to type safety.

Just like one might have trouble optimizing a C program because any random integer might be added to a pointer at any time, in these sorts of languages, any string can be used to access a member or a method of a [class/dictionary/whatever] at any time, so you can't really rename functions willy-nilly.

Aha.

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