Re: Lingo vs Javascript

[Mike Blaustein <mblaustein@xxxxxxxxx>]

I see very few incentives to move from Lingo to JS.  If you don't know 
Lingo, and you do know JS (or ActionScript) then JS can be a more 
approachable way to get into Director.  But there is no payoff in 
someone who knows Lingo moving into JS.

I do use a few things that JS syntax enables that is nonexistent in 
Lingo, like RegEx and some string handling capabilities (like 
toLower()), but in general, I will write a small wrapper handler in JS 
around the function and then call it from Lingo.

But then I'm old school and still use verbose syntax in many cases.