Re: basic BASIC question

On 2/6/2025 10:24 AM, Dan Cross wrote:

In article <67a4cc2d$0$708$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

On 2/3/2025 1:24 PM, Simon Clubley 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.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et8xNAc2ic8

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And we use this crap to build critical websites that our society and
general way of life now depend on. :-(
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And some even think it's a good idea to run this server-side. :-(

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JavaScript has had a huge market share in presentation layer
in web applications for decades.
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Either companies don't know how to profit maximize or
JavaScript is/was a good choice for this type
of code.

 Server side Javascript does not run on the browser.
 

Small code bases, frequent releases and high user
tolerance for small ooopses favor a language like
JavaScript. Ada would not work well in this context
from a business perspective.
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Code bases are not small anymore though. And TypeScript
has taken huge chunks of market share from
JavaScript in recent years.

 Typescript is a better language.  JavaScript should
have been better than it was, but that shippe has sailed,
and the story has been told many times: it was ten days
from conception to ship, and the consequent lack of
polish shows.

If JavaScript was unique in the web frontend world
for lack of type safety, then the lack of type safety
could be due to its history.
But it is not unique. Other popular languages like
PHP and Python also has a relaxed approach to types.
Past popular languages like Perl and VBS same.
Web frontend is not like backend or embedded.
Arne