[thelist] Where Start?/How Proceed

Ben Henick persist1 at io.com
Sat Mar 2 07:00:01 CST 2002


On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Nick Wilson wrote:

> * and then Ben Henick declared....
> > 2.  Good Habits:  The canonical documentation for JavaScript addresses
> >     scope and loose typing (and objects, and control structures) a helluva
> >     lot better than the canonical PHP documentation.  And much of it
> >     assumes a novice audience.
>
> Where is that documentation?

Ummm... at

http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/

JavaScript after all was issued from the bowels of Netscape.

*gasp*  Did I say that?!

[I suffer from something I refer to as "Post Traumatic Netscape Disorder"
- a disease the primary symptom of which is habits requiring byzantine
references that were originally learned to work around Netscape 4 bugs (or
more accurately, its *undocumented* bugs.  But the language is actually
pretty cool as languages go.]

The code examples provided are often (obtuse || sparse) enough to result
in serious headscratching, but source can generally fix that problem.


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