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Re:Python is the new BASIC by kawa on Friday July 31, 2015 @10:24AM (#9981915)
The browser is the "de facto operating system" for the web and javascript is its programming language. Javascript really is the new BASIC...
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Re:Python is the new BASIC by marcelluspye on Friday July 31, 2015 @10:40AM (#9982031)
That's a big stretch. Javascript is underneath everything in the web, but users aren't forced to interact with it every time they open their browser.
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Re:Python is the new BASIC by nsxwolf on Friday July 31, 2015 @10:38AM (#9982024)
And the average Chrome user is not likely to discover View->Developer->JavaScript Console, and enter console.log("Hello world!")

They aren't meant to.

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