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Classic computer science problems solved in JavaScript
- pgbovine 17y agoi think the real value in doing js implementations is hooking them up to js visualization libraries so that you can do online demos within the webpage; could be great for education. otherwise i don't see the benefit of coding this up in js vs. other similar dynamic languages.
- TNO 17y agoThe benefit being that JavaScript is the most popular language in history?
- xtho 17y agoA billion flies can't be wrong. Just because it's used on almost every webpage, doesn't mean it's popular in the sense of being liked.
- robermrangel 17y agoYea, I wish I could <script language='ruby'></script>
- walkon 17y agoSeriously asking here: what would you like more about Ruby as opposed to Javascript if they were in the same boat (i.e. if Ruby had client ubiquity, no systems frameworks, no major non-browser platform, etc)?
- camccann 17y agoLack of curly braces?
- Confusion 17y agoYou can... sort of: http://ejohn.org/blog/ruby-vm-in-javascript/ http://ejohn.org/blog/ruby-vm-in-javascript/
- hartror 17y agoIt is certainly the most talked about at this point in time because of it's active competitive development and distribution. But popular? In what definition?
- keefe 17y agoThe more I work with js the more I like it. This project is a great idea, if it can be maintained. I'm fairly interested in figuring something to contribute myself.
- ComputerGuru 17y agoLook, JS is a language like any other. If I can do something in assembly, I can do it in JS. Give me IF statements (preferably with nesting support) and variables, and there's nothing that cannot be done. What remains is how easy, how nice, how flexible, how enjoyable, how compatible, how reliable, how practical. For me, the answer is C++, but don't let that influence you ;-)
- camccann 17y agoGive me IF statements (preferably with nesting support) and variables, and there's nothing that cannot be done. I know you were exaggerating here, but simple conditional statements aren't actually sufficient. You need some construct that allows repetition, if only implicitly. "while" loops would be easy, but even simple function calls suffice if you have function pointers (in fact, allowing function pointers alone ought to be enough, without conditionals or even variables). At any rate, it's the lack vs. presence of repetition constructs that makes SQL not a full general-purpose language, where XSLT actually is.
- ComputerGuru 17y agoAdd GoTo's to the list, and you're set :) At the assembly level, everything is boiled down to (basically) bne, mov, and jmp.