Subj : Re: beginner question spidermonkey
To   : Sterling Bates
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Thu Sep 02 2004 08:07 pm

Sterling Bates wrote:
> "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 :)


No problem, and I should have added, being an expert or experienced 
programmer in any language counts a lot, even if you are just learning 
C.  I wasn't sure the original poster knew any other programming 
language well, though.

Even if you know one language, particularly a pedagogical or 
higher-level language, learning C deeply takes a while.  And (my point) 
SpiderMonkey has a full-strength C API.

/be

.