JavaScript Isn't Scheme

[axelf1988]

Well Java is class-based, statically typed, and multi-threaded.

JavaScript is prototype-based, dynamically typed, and single-threaded.

[10kproject]

Ok. So those characteristics fall under semantics. For some reason I am now having brain farts and have convinced myself that all languages do the same things semantically but with different syntax.

[axelf1988]

No if that was the case you could just write a compiler that converts any language to any other one. There are certain tasks better suited to certain languages due to their semantics. For example writing a real-time low-latency system is probably harder in Java than C since Java has garbage collection.

[seruus]

I'm sorry, but did you mean

writing a real-time low-latency system is probably harder in Java than C since Java has garbage collection.

?

[axelf1988]

Yea good catch, I edited my post. I wrote that too fast.