On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:11 AM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 10:50 AM -0400 3/23/09, Bastien Koert wrote: >> >> Tedd, >> >> JS has been running on MS servers for a long time. It was always viewes as >> an acceptable replacement for vbscript. > > Well -- that's been my fear. I think that M$ is trying to get it's foot into > this so they can charge for it -- similar to them creating C# as a alternate > for Java. Has anyone taken M$ certification lately? If anything, guys, it's not going to be Javascript... it will be some other child of the ECMA standard, like ActionScript (which interfaces natively with XML, MXML, and Flash). As for Microsoft and JS, I think they're finally warming up (a bit) to the Open Source initiative: jQuery will be included (AS-IS, WITHOUT MODIFICATION) in the new versions of not only the .NET framework, but in code completion and documentation for the next Visual Studio developer package. I'm not so sure that C# was a replacement for Java, either--more a way to bring C++ (OOP) into the .NET framework while maintaining their new dynamic of "safe" vs. "unsafe" code, etc... Related to server-side Javascript... there are MANY languages that offer JS connectors so that JS can be embedded as a scripting language in your application. I'm sure this has been applied to a web application as well as console apps (in lieu of Lua, VBScript, etc.). My 2c. -- // Todd -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
