i've been reading the "professional javascript for web developers" by matt frisbie. matt has done a great job, the book is very thorough. after reading through

i've been reading the "professional javascript for web developers" by matt frisbie. matt has done a great job, the book is very thorough. after reading through about a 1/3 of the book it's evident that js is a very flexible language and riddled with soooo many inconsistencies due to all the band-aids manily due to the evolution of the js standard. the section of var blew my mind. it's really sad that so many engineers are exposed to this mess. there is a reason there are so many languages that compile to js. with this pattern, it boggles my mind that the js standards folks continue to add more cruft into the language. they've done enough damage.