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  • A Aless Alessio

    :^) oh man ... am i the only weirdo who likes coding in Javascript ?!?

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    Jeremy Falcon
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    Nope. It's not so bad as people make it out to be... different yes. Bad... nope.

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    • P Pete OHanlon

      Aless Alessio wrote:

      With the relatively new "ECMA6", writing in Javascript is pretty much like writing in C#

      I admire your optimism.

      This space for rent

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      H Brydon
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      I'd call it something else...

      I'm retired. There's a nap for that... - Harvey

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      • M Marc Clifton

        Vincent Maverick Durano wrote:

        Thanks to TypeScript for making my life less stressed!

        Why do I not believe you? :~ Marc

        Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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        Jeremy Falcon
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        :laugh:

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        • M Marc Clifton

          Took me 10 minutes to find the error: onProceed: funtion() { And of course, the only error I get is Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token { So of course I wonder, where did I have a mismatched curly brace??? Wrong wonderment. X| Marc

          Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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          Jeremy Falcon
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          Marc man, what are you using for an IDE? function is a keyword and should be highlighted. You're making this hard on yourself man.

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            Of course that is not really Javascript's problem. I see plenty of stupid errors in Visual Studio. Sometimes when you have a mistake that means that a project does not compile there are a ton of others. Then there was the time that I had a WPF UserControl and the code behind did not see the names in the XAML. I would love to blame Javascript for this problem since I am not fond of the language for a number or reasons, but in this case I cannot.

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            Marc Clifton
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            Clifford Nelson wrote:

            I see plenty of stupid errors in Visual Studio.

            True - the ones that are worst are Linq errors - those errors messages usually have nothing to do with the actual error. Marc

            Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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            • J Jeremy Falcon

              Marc man, what are you using for an IDE? function is a keyword and should be highlighted. You're making this hard on yourself man.

              Jeremy Falcon

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              Marc Clifton
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              Jeremy Falcon wrote:

              Marc man, what are you using for an IDE?

              I'm using Sublime. I suppose I could try VS Code, but then I have to figure out how to set it up to FTP saves over to the Ubuntu VM running the app. (Editing in Ubuntu sucks, one of many reasons being that the numeric keypad cursor keys don't work, and using the "T" is not something I ever got used to and cramps my fingers.) Marc

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              • R raddevus

                10 minutes is fast to find that. I'm serious. I've had a single missing comma cost me over an hour. Painful.

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                Marc Clifton
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                raddevus wrote:

                I've had a single missing comma cost me over an hour.

                Same here. It took forever to actually realize it even wanted a comma. That was in my n00b days working with Backbone. Sort of trial by fire, was asked to implement a bunch of pages on existing project, never used Backbone before. Marc

                Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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                • M Marc Clifton

                  Jeremy Falcon wrote:

                  Marc man, what are you using for an IDE?

                  I'm using Sublime. I suppose I could try VS Code, but then I have to figure out how to set it up to FTP saves over to the Ubuntu VM running the app. (Editing in Ubuntu sucks, one of many reasons being that the numeric keypad cursor keys don't work, and using the "T" is not something I ever got used to and cramps my fingers.) Marc

                  Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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                  Jeremy Falcon
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                  I use Sublime also. It supports syntax highlighting. You having a rough day? :laugh: You need a hug? I can code one up for ya in JavaScript.

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                  • A Aless Alessio

                    :^) oh man ... am i the only weirdo who likes coding in Javascript ?!?

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                    Shuqian Ying
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                    I am one that don't dislike javascript anymore, although I used to. In fact we just finished a quite complex system in which javascript plays a major role in both the server side and client side (see my signature) and it works quite well. As a matter of fact, I am feeling that the javascript codes we produced are more readable than the C# counter part (some of the equivalent logic were were realized in C# before) due to its functional style of representation

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                    • M Marc Clifton

                      raddevus wrote:

                      I've had a single missing comma cost me over an hour.

                      Same here. It took forever to actually realize it even wanted a comma. That was in my n00b days working with Backbone. Sort of trial by fire, was asked to implement a bunch of pages on existing project, never used Backbone before. Marc

                      Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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                      raddevus
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                      Marc Clifton wrote:

                      It took forever to actually realize it even wanted a comma. That was in my n00b days working with...

                      AngularJS (1.x) Exact same experience, just a different JS library. :) Hilarious!! and/or Terrible!! All for the lack of a decent compiler and good warnings.

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                        Took me 10 minutes to find the error: onProceed: funtion() { And of course, the only error I get is Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token { So of course I wonder, where did I have a mismatched curly brace??? Wrong wonderment. X| Marc

                        Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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                        Plamen Dragiyski
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                        If that didn't make your half program red, you use the wrong IDE. In fact a simple editor that highlight keywords would detect that (Why is the "funtion" not highlighted?). When people used notepad (not notepad++) for programming they had all these problems with typos and semicolons. Those were difficult ancient times...

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                        • M Marc Clifton

                          Took me 10 minutes to find the error: onProceed: funtion() { And of course, the only error I get is Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token { So of course I wonder, where did I have a mismatched curly brace??? Wrong wonderment. X| Marc

                          Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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                          Jan Hansen
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                          Be mindful of the dark side...

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                          • A Aless Alessio

                            let's make an agreement, mate: you'll deal with my XAML and i ll take your javascript duties

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                            Sander Rossel
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                            How about you do my CSS and I'll fix whatever problems you have (car, marriage, kids, anything is more fixable than CSS) X|

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                            • M Marc Clifton

                              Took me 10 minutes to find the error: onProceed: funtion() { And of course, the only error I get is Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token { So of course I wonder, where did I have a mismatched curly brace??? Wrong wonderment. X| Marc

                              Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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                              Sander Rossel
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                              I once spend 15 minutes trying to write a simple Hello World in JavaScript. I had pretty much the same problem. Boy, do you feel stupid when you have years of experience and fail at Hello World :laugh: Luckily I now know the problem is JavaScript, not me :D I find JavaScript doable nowadays, but only when I don't have to deal with other people's code.

                              Read my (free) ebook Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly. Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles here on CodeProject.

                              Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

                              Regards, Sander

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                              • M Marc Clifton

                                Took me 10 minutes to find the error: onProceed: funtion() { And of course, the only error I get is Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token { So of course I wonder, where did I have a mismatched curly brace??? Wrong wonderment. X| Marc

                                Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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                                Kiriander
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                                Be glad that you hate it. A couple of my coworkers are full on Stockholm syndrome.

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                                  Be glad that you hate it. A couple of my coworkers are full on Stockholm syndrome.

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                                  • M Marc Clifton

                                    Took me 10 minutes to find the error: onProceed: funtion() { And of course, the only error I get is Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token { So of course I wonder, where did I have a mismatched curly brace??? Wrong wonderment. X| Marc

                                    Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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                                    Dar Brett 0
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                                    If you think that's bad - you should try missing a semicolon after a class definition in C++

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                                    • A Aless Alessio

                                      :-D come ooooooooooooon With the relatively new "ECMA6", writing in Javascript is pretty much like writing in C# ECMAScript 6: New Features: Overview and Comparison[^]

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                                      lindennerd1992
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                                      goddam right! :thumbsup:

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                                      • A Aless Alessio

                                        :-D come ooooooooooooon With the relatively new "ECMA6", writing in Javascript is pretty much like writing in C# ECMAScript 6: New Features: Overview and Comparison[^]

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                                        Richard Deeming
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                                        That's fine if you control the environment. If you're writing a website, it's going to be 10+ years before you can safely use those features without a "transpiler" to convert them back to ES5. And even then, you'll still have users on IE6 complaining that your site is broken. :rolleyes:


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                                        • M Marc Clifton

                                          Took me 10 minutes to find the error: onProceed: funtion() { And of course, the only error I get is Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token { So of course I wonder, where did I have a mismatched curly brace??? Wrong wonderment. X| Marc

                                          Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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                                          sir_download_alot
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                                          Yeah, Cobol was easier!

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