> At the time JavaScript was looked down upon by most professional programmers as a toy. A toy that had buggy implementations in various browsers, that lacked t

> At the time JavaScript was looked down upon by most professional programmers as a toy. A toy that had buggy implementations in various browsers, that lacked the strict typing of C++ or Java, that didn't have classical inheritance, that had no good IDE, and, worst of all, that you could create some terribly confusing bugs with. This is how I still view JavaScript.