White House Petition Aims To Stop The Javascript Scourge

InformationWeek ^ | 3/27/2016 | Curtis Franklin Jr.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Some programming languages are so bad, so dangerous, that the full weight of the US federal government must be brought to bear on ending their use. That's the premise of a petition now seeking signatures at the "We the People" section of the White House web site.

The petition, entered on the site March 16, 2016, asks the government to, "Outlaw programming languages that threaten the safety of the American people and work counter to our way of life." The petitioner is even kind enough to provide examples of these evil and dangerous languages.

Which programming languages deserve the fate normally reserved for terrorists and drug pushers? Javascript, Ruby, and Java are called out by name. According to the petition, "

[Vince Ferrer]

ADA is used in a lot of hardware like satellites.

[Paladin2]

I complement your 2’s....

[dr_lew]

for ( i=0 ; i< 1000000000000000 ; i++ ){
if ( bad[i] == YES ) dokill( app[i] );
}

[BereanBrain]

For the computer literate, SUN relabeled Pascal, and called it JAVA, then screwed it up.

FACT. Deal with it.

[Scrambler Bob]

We had one program. Late 1980’s or so. Had to convert. Had to buy ADA compiler, which was single-source or worse.

EEK! $$$$!

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Ban assembler. heck ban all machine code. ;-) (programmers will laugh, at least real ones)

10 kinds of people in the world...... :-)

Look up the joke if you don’t get it.

[Vince Ferrer]

They must figure that if you are working in ADA you are building a Mars lander so you can afford the compiler.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Gave up on C# when Windows 10 came out. Too many places in objects to hide tracking. Windows 10 is evil. Let Microsoft die the death coming to them. Migrating clients to Mint. So far they like it, especially the licensing costs. Productivity is actually up without all the crappy ribbon menus where you cant find what you want. Even the young can read, and a text menu tells you what you want to know.

[kvanbrunt2]

i installed “stop script.” it works you usually have to allow stuff on the page but you at least have control

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I’d say “C” is the worst. It’s ugly and you can do everything bad to your computer you’d desire

Blasphemer!

[ConservativeMind]

ROTFL!

[libh8er]

Arabic first.

[AFreeBird]

Don’t say that to a *nix guy.

[Scrambler Bob]

This was a Navy weapons system.

Raytheon, I think. Raytheon had the compiler. Navy had to buy it to be able to monitor and check things.

[GingisK]

...how easy it was to do the same stuff in Perl that I’d started doing in C...

Try writing a cross assembler for any microprocessor. Perl would be a terrible choice for that job.

[ConservativeMind]

Do you know anyone who’s tried OpenBSD?

[Vision Thing]

I’m goofing around with a hobby project in mvc 5. I’ve been looking into using knockout.js instead of angular, both of which I’ve never used before. Some of the things you can do in knockout.js on the client-side for forms and data-binding are really useful.

But if I want this project to turn into something more serious, something tells me I should skip knockout.js and go straight to angular instead.

So thanks for the link to the angular course.

[Vision Thing]

It’s all 0s and 1s in the end.
= = =

But some 0s think they are 1s, and vice versa.

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Homobama is a binary being: to many he is The One, to everyone else, he is Zero.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

I don’t. It is not Windows user friendly I would assume. (Assumption on my part) Mint is an immediate fit. Very easy to transfer windows users to mint as long as there are no complications.

[Lazamataz]

I’m not seeing the free course yet.