On: <script type="text/jquery">

[imajes]

a lexer/tokenizer in js. hmm. i love how we've got new fast JS engines, but really? this fast?

[vl → imajes]

Modern JS engines are fast enough for many tasks not possible before. For example, I implemented AES256 and SHA256 in javascript for "security locker" website (http://www.memengo.com). I spent few days hand-optimizing the implementation to make it fast enough to encrypt user data in slow browsers like IE6, but last-generation browsers like FF3.5, Safari 4, Chrome would be fast enough even without excessive tuning.

[zefhous → imajes]

You could still use it if you like the syntax better and just precompile it. Same deal with sass (http://sass-lang.com/).

[boucher → imajes]

In fact, browsers were that fast in 2006, when this was written. Not fast enough to do some things that we're doing today, but more than fast enough to parse a simple language like this.

[jerome_etienne → imajes]

cappuccino and all that... they got a new language with compiler all in javascript :) objective-j it is like objective-c but for javascript

http://cappuccino.org/learn/

ps: they will never do asm the way we did :)

[boucher → jerome_etienne]

For what it's worth, all of us have programmed 68k assembly.

[jerome_etienne → boucher]

then you likely feel the gap too :)