Re: basic BASIC question

In article <vnr1lq$1d7as$1@dont-email.me>,
Simon Clubley  <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:

On 2025-01-31, Dan Cross <cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:

>
If you really want to have a good time, look at how
JavaScript deals with this.  Things aren't just true
or false, they're truthy and falsy, and sometimes Nan.
>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et8xNAc2ic8

>
And we use this crap to build critical websites that our society and
general way of life now depend on. :-(

Yeah.  Typescript is better, and shaves off a lot of the sharper
edges, but their ability to really fix things is limited by the
demands of backwards compatibility.

And some even think it's a good idea to run this server-side. :-(

Some people think that Javascript is actually a good language.
Doug Crockford wrote a book on the good parts; it is a rather
thin volume.  :-)

- Dan C.