Author: Graham Laight
Date: 09:55:02 01/10/03
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On January 10, 2003 at 12:38:30, Dan Andersson wrote: >I tend to use high level languages for just the reason of brevity. Why on earth >write 1k lines when I can get away with 50-100 in a decent language. And the >number of bugs tend to be linear to the length of the program. And for testing >and developement of algorithms I use Forth. That gives me interactive testing. > >MvH Dan Andersson Copy the following line into your address bar and press enter: javascript:Math.sqrt(16)+5 Lo and behold - "9" will appear! JavaScript is a complete object oriented language, with everything you need to do programming of algorithms. It is not dissimilar from C++ or Java, and if you use Explorer as your browser, you can download a free debugger. One drawback if your algorithms entail doing billions of loops - it will be about 100x slower than a compiled language. -g
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