I don't think that javascript can be seriously described as "the worst...language ever designed". I don't think that anyone who has ever written any non-trivia

I don't think that javascript can be seriously described as "the worst...language ever designed". I don't think that anyone who has ever written any non-trivial program in AppleScript could agree with that, and I am sure that there are other languages that are, in their own way, unquestionably worse. For me, it set the tone for the article and greatly diminished the value of his observations. After that patently hyperbolic statement, everything he said had to be taken as a possible exaggeration. This is fine if one has direct experience with everything he mentions and just want to read a colleague rant about a frustration one shares, but it means that this blog post is not a useful document to anyone else.