On 12/23/06, David Vallner <david / vallner.net> wrote: > > By the way, you're confusing language and programming environment. JS > the language is, in terms of language power, incrementally or at worst > linearly inferior than Ruby the language, and could probably match it in > more features than you can think of. The standard library is Good Enough > for the task the language is primarily supposed to fulfill (script a > HTML rendering engine). Anyone thinking of Javascript as crippled or inferior would do well to take a look at http://w3future.com/html/loell/ martin