Is Javascript bad? Is W3 validation important, or just cross-browser compatibility is?

[Ivan Avery Frey]

Scott Elcomb wrote:
> On 7/18/06, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> [...]
>> The funny part is that JavaScript bears no material relationship to
>> Java; they are totally different sorts of languages, beyond the vague
>> similarity that code in both languages has some aspects of syntax that
>> might remind one of C...
> 
> Also very similar to Perl.  Close enough that I'm tinkering with the
> idea of writing a JIT perl->js translator/interpreter in/with/for
> Atomic OS - hopefully with the help of a Perl Foundation grant.
> 
> I haven't tried it yet, but JSAN (http://www.openjsan.org/) is an
> attempt to give JavaScript programmers a CPAN-like tool.
> 

Are you familiar with the Perl 6 development and Parrot?

Ivan.
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