Fogus: Node.js should become its own language

Re:Fogus: Node.js should become its own language by scott_s on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @11:05AM (#2437489)

Fair enough, but the examples I've seen look like continuation passing style (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation-passing_style), which is something we know how to abstract behind language syntax and semantics. In what way am I wrong?

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Re:Fogus: Node.js should become its own language by dionidium on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @11:19AM (#2437552)

Programming in an "event-based way" is a huge part of writing traditional JavaScript in the browser. You're handling user events, Ajax responses, the page load itself. And JavaScript's first-class functions and closures are extremely well-suited to the task.

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Re:Fogus: Node.js should become its own language by scott_s on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @11:23AM (#2437568)

Ah, yes, you are correct. Then consider for the sake of discussion that I said "asynchronous."

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