From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-06-22T20:21:37+09:00
Subject: Re: > Ruby is the #1 most popular language on GitHub.

Eric Hodel wrote:
> I find Javascript a rather beautiful language, its prototypes and open
> objects are similar to Ruby and its singleton classes in power. It's
> the DOM that makes Javascript ugly.

I agree. You can even extend core classes in Javascript as per Ruby (*). 
There is a book "Javascript: The Good Parts" which expands on the clean 
and elegant aspects of Javascript.

As for Ruby being top on github: that just demonstrates that the Ruby 
community makes a lot of use of github, possibly because github itself 
is written in Ruby. Maybe python users have their own preferred ways of 
sharing code?

Regards,

Brian.

(*)
// ex1
Number.prototype.times = function(thing) {
  for (var i=0; i<this; i++) thing();
}
Number(5).times(function() { print("hello") })

// ex2
Function.prototype.times = function(num) {
  for (var i=0; i<num; i++) this();
}

f = function() { print("hello") };
f.times(3);

// These examples can be run at the command line using 'js'
// (sudo apt-get install spidermonkey-bin)
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