Subj : Re: beginner question spidermonkey
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Sterling Bates
Date : Thu Sep 02 2004 08:24 pm


"Brendan Eich" <brendan@meer.net> wrote in message
news:4137C504.7090108@meer.net...
> I'm not sure what was intended here, but I am concerned that beginners
> at C programming not also try to learn SpiderMonkey at the same time.  I
> don't mean that harshly -- it's really not in any C beginner's best
> interest (although shaver claims he was learning C when he was learning
> SpiderMonkey).

Sorry about that Brendan, I hadn't contributed much here for a while and
thought I could handle this one :)

> OTOH, Sterling IIRC knows Object-Pascal but not too much C, and has
> managed to hack an Obj-Pascal bridge to SpiderMonkey.  Maybe my advice
> to beginners is not sound. ;-)

I've written in Borland's Pascal products since 1989, so I hope I'm not a
beginner ;)  My bridge works nicely, but my C, as you say, leaves much to be
desired.  I'll be less loose with my advice next time.

Sterling

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