Re: [Algorithms] Complexity of new hardware

[Rachel B. <r....@gm...>]

>
> There's JavaScript, which has pretty huge adoption (outside of games),
> C-like syntax, closures, prototype-based inheritance, active
> communities working on the language spec and on implementations and on
> applications, is reasonably elegant and powerful (see some articles on
> http://www.crockford.com/javascript/), is quite small (the language
> itself, distinct from the web browser environment (with DOM and AJAX
> and all that stuff) it typically runs in),

The downside: If you want to include additional JavaScript libraries  
you have to (as far as I know) resort to the web browser as  
preprocessor. Which kind of destroys any idea of modularity.

I like the language a lot, but this one "feature" kills it outright.

If you (the OP) really want a C-like scripting language, see Ch (http://www.softintegration.com/ 
) or CINT (http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint)

Rachel