I don't understand why people say javascript is such an awful language. Frankly, because from a language design perspective, it is - or at least used to be: Ba

I don't understand why people say javascript is such an awful language. Frankly, because from a language design perspective, it is - or at least used to be: Bad scoping rules (implicit global declarations by default, function instead of lexical block scope if var is present), weird implicit conversions, no good story for code reuse/object extension so everyone doing anything complex had to cook up their own version, ... Nevertheless, I actually enjoy programming in Javascript ;)