Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/04/06 02:54

whiskey wrote:
> Pedro Graca wrote:
>
>>JavaScript /is/ a true programming language
>
> Sure it is true, rather a true *scripting* language.
> One friend o'mine once said: "Life's hard without pointers..." :-)
>
> Rafe Culpin wrote:
>
>>But it assumes existing knowledge of PHP and of procedural programming.
>
> Of course, that's what I'm trying to say. Learn to do it in a
> procedural way, and then start to better organise your application as
> whole by using an OO aproach.
>

Don't let the "script" in Javascript fool you. Javascript is as much a
scripting language as PHP. Both are interpreted - one by the browser,
one by the server.

And yes, Javascript is a true programming language. OTOH, HTML is a
true scripting language.


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