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• /me concurs (Score:1)

  by broquaint (2964)

  JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language

  Hear, hear!

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  broquaint out
  • really misunderstood (Score:1)

    by jmm (276)

    I don't understand it in the slightest. Never have had any need to.
• I don't mind Javascript so much as it's domain (Score:2, Insightful)

  by jordan (120)

  Web scripting...

  To have Javascript enabled on your browser, you really should stay plugged in to the various Certs and patches that may arise due to security problems. I hate the nagging feeling that I'm never quite safe when browsing... There's always that 0-day exploit that will get me some day.

  Sure, some things have been found in HTML, forms in particular, that are similar, but I feel a lot safer knowing that the site isn't executing code behind my back.

  The other thing I hate about Web Scripting is t
  • Re:I don't mind Javascript so much as it's domain (Score:3, Interesting)

    by rafael (2125)

    Most excellent points and I agree with you, mostly. Here are some comments :

    1. Tree-views and fancy rollovers can be implemented without scripting, in pure CSS (of course this requires recent browsers, but also this degrades nicely, unlike script-based implementations.)

    2. The article I linked to discusses JavaScript from the point of view of language design : as it says, Lisp in C's Clothing, with that unusual function-are-objects approach. Quoting again : JavaScript is well suited to a large class of non
    • Re:I don't mind Javascript so much as it's domain (Score:2)

      by lachoy (1663)

      I think it's also well-suited as an easily embeddable generic scripting language, saving application developers the work of creating yet another half-baked domain specific environment. It's used in Dreamweaver (or at least it was the last time I looked) and these guys [anthonyeden.com] seem to be having a productive time with it as well.
• Javascript vs. Perl (Score:1)

  by bart (450)

  Javascript is actually quite similar to Perl. It (only) has one-dimensional arrays. It has hashes, in Javascript known as "objects". Any parameter to a sub/function is optional. It even has native regular expressions unlike PHP, where a regexp is a string.

  IMO, one of the major differences between Javascript and Perl, is the OO system. And that isn't a bad thing: Javascript has a very interesting view on the world of objects.

  I don't think you can learn proper Javascript off the web. There's just to