[Info-vax] Variable declarations, was: Re: improving EDT

[Paul Sture]

On 2016-11-20, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
>
> PHP is probably a lost cause, but JavaScript is moving pretty rapidly
> toward a number of modern features, and derivatives such as TypeScript
> offer strong typing.
>

Here's a summary of the Javascript surprises awaiting the experienced
programmer:

"It Isn’t Love That Makes The Web Go Round
It’s JavaScript, surprisingly.

...

If you start out thinking that you are just bringing your Java or C# or
C(++) skills to a different sweatshop then you will soon find that
almost everything you need to write robust and maintainable code appears
to be missing. How to create great software with such a toy? Well, in
this case appearances are deceiving. There is a surprisingly serious
programming language hiding in there. It’s just not the one that it
looks like."

<http://andycook.org/computing/javascript/surprisingly/>

Frameworks are something else.  The following humourous article may
leave you confused:

"How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016"

<https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f>

also see the article which inspired that, which takes us into the world of
containers

<https://circleci.com/blog/its-the-future/>

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