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Re:Diagram and History of Programming Languages (2006) by chvid on Monday March 18, 2019 @04:33PM (#19424970)
If you add static types to js and create typescript you all of a sudden have something that looks a lot like c# and java ... don’t you think?
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Re:Diagram and History of Programming Languages (2006) by ylesaout on Monday March 18, 2019 @06:15PM (#19425907)
And if you add Lambdas to Java you all of a sudden have something that looks a lot like JavaScript... Don't you think?
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Re:Diagram and History of Programming Languages (2006) by chvid on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @09:50AM (#19430748)
To me the big different between js and java is the static type system - ignore that the connection between the two is obvious.
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