Web Browsers with Javascript?

[Gregory Nowak]

I for one, don't call it programming. I call it pick and choose, and feel like a programmer. I think that is really unfair to the people who actually sit down, right the code, and know what they're doing. Hell, with the visual stuff, it will even highlight bad cyntax for you.
Greg


On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:14:25PM -0500, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Personally, I do not have a clue why colleges push java script. For I like
> perl, cgi, and php better. I suspect it was because Netscape came up with
> it, and it has the backing of the Microsoft people.
> I've seen many computer science classes migrating to Visual C++, Visual
> Basic, html/java script, and they are not teaching just regular c classes in
> Unix any more.
> The professors at my school said it was because the Microsoft compilers and
> MS stuff was easier to teach. That's because programmers in the Windows
> world love to draw all the objects, and slap in some code, and they think
> they are good to go.
> 
> 
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> From: Janina Sajka <janina at afb.net>
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> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 10:44 AM
> Subject: Re: Web Browsers with Javascript?
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> 
> > I keep wanting to understand this. Why do they think it's hot? What about
> > js is so hot?
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Thomas Ward wrote:
> >
> > > None that I am personally aware of. Which really is too bad because
> colleges
> > > are pushing the java script thing.
> > > I don't know about the colleges in other places but around here they
> think
> > > Java script is hot stuff.
> > >
> > >
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