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From: Peter Billam on 2 Apr 2010 03:53
Startling news from http://pygame.org/news.html :

pygame rewritten for javascript - Apr 1, 2010
Javascript in recent years has been getting better and better, and
now is a way better language than python. So to keep up with the
times pygame has been rewritten for javascript. Please prepare
your codebase with the py2js tool, which tries to automatically
convert your python code into javascript.

Hopefully with a few years everyone will have upgraded their
code, and it will be wonderful. I hope you all will enjoy
this change to javascript. Further news, and release binaries
to be announced *very* soon.

I'm sure anyone who's spent time writing JavaScript will agree
completely with the fact that this fascinating news item was
released just yesterday (today being the second of April).
It's exciting that release binaries will be available
- er, to be more precise, will be announced - very soon.
Perhaps even in 364 days time? Don't be left behind !

Peter

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Peter Billam www.pjb.com.au www.pjb.com.au/comp/contact.html
From: Gary Herron on 2 Apr 2010 04:19
Xavier Ho wrote:
> Javascript in recent years has been getting better and better, and
>
> now is a way better language than python. So to keep up with the
> times pygame has been rewritten for javascript.
>
>
> *shudders*
>
> Can someone convince me why that is a good idea at all? Any rationales?
>
> Cheers,
> -Xav

It's a joke -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day

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Gary Herron, PhD.
Department of Computer Science
DigiPen Institute of Technology
(425) 895-4418

From: Chris Rebert on 2 Apr 2010 12:25
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Xavier Ho <contact(a)xavierho.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Gary Herron <gherron(a)digipen.edu> wrote:
>> It's a joke -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Da
>
> D'oh!
>
> Can't believe that got me.
>
> (It's already 2nd of April... you're not supposed to make that joke now! =p)

He's in Australia. Fun with timezones!

Cheers,
Chris
From: Jose Manuel on 2 Apr 2010 12:58
On Apr 2, 3:19 am, Gary Herron <gher...(a)digipen.edu> wrote:
> Xavier Ho wrote:
> >  Javascript in recent years has been getting better and better, and
>
> >      now is a way better language than python. So to keep up with the
> >      times pygame has been rewritten for javascript.
>
> > *shudders*
>
> > Can someone convince me why that is a good idea at all? Any rationales?
>
> > Cheers,
> > -Xav
>
> It's a joke -- seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day
>
> --
> Gary Herron, PhD.
> Department of Computer Science
> DigiPen Institute of Technology
> (425) 895-4418

I read that on its web site and because I am not accustomed to that
"April fools" I fell into the trap, I though “I am just starting to
studying Python now they come with javaScript again”. :) I have
recently learned JavaScript and I did not like it to much.

BTW within my culture the equivalent to such Aprils Fools is the
Innocents’ Days (on Dec 28th) which comes from the Christian History.

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