One issue I have with this JS tutorial is that it spends little to no time talking about FP, just OOP (functional vs object-oriented programming). What text it

One issue I have with this JS tutorial is that it spends little to no time talking about FP, just OOP (functional vs object-oriented programming). What text it does devote to Closures makes them sound like a "problem" to be worked around. Funny, I thought "this" was the problem (to be worked around, or avoided entirely whenever possible). Class based languages such as Java do an excellent job of modeling how I thought about programming back in 1990. It's how we were taught in school, so as to be able to manage mutable data in a turing tar pit. (remembering a lecture about garbage collection, which essentially scoffed at the overhead...) Having learned a good deal more about FP in the last 10 or 15 years (beyond the little bit of Lisp I did in an AI class back in the 80s), Javascript really starts to shine in many ways, whereas Java (and other [Simula67 subset] C++ derivatives) looks like the intellectual cripple in comparison. I wish people would stop trying to turn Javascript into something more and more like C++/Java. Just stop, already. It was supposed to be like Scheme and/or Smalltalk, but The Management (marketing) got involved, and the rest is tragedy, er, history.