From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-06-25T21:33:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Javascript.new

Javascript is indeed a fine language - but as you're probably aware, 
this is the ruby-talk mailing list. Is your point that you can do 
Ruby-like things in Javascript? Sure can.

Number.prototype.times = function(thing) {
  for (var i=0; i<this; i++) thing();
}

Number(5).times(function() { print("hello") })

Javascript might be a great general-purpose language if it weren't so 
sandboxed. That is, whilst you can get a Javascript interpreter which 
runs on the command line (spidermonkey), it can't talk to the filesystem 
or spawn external processes.
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