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I don't see the point of a programming language allowing itself braining fucking its users(developer) for serious use
by a_c 10y ago
I don't see the point of a programming language allowing itself braining fucking its users(developer) for serious use
- atemerev 10y agoAll those idiosyncratic moments were taken into Javascript right from Perl. Perl can do this and much more. And Perl codebase is huge. Perl is used quite heavily at Amazon, Booking.com and Yahoo, among others. Say what you want about Perl, but it is fun and hacker-friendly. I enjoyed it for many years.
- kqr 10y agoIt's optimizing for writeability rather than readability.
- arundelo 10y agoIf you don't like JavaScript's type coercion rules, fair enough. But if you're criticizing the fact that you can write JavaScript programs with nothing but punctuation characters, remember that no-one ever does so except as a joke, and that you can do ridiculous stuff in most languages. (Try Googling "obfuscated $YOUR_FAVORITE_LANGUAGE".)