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> I hate almost everything about JavaScript, its syntax, the decisions made and steps taken in its development Well, one of them was done in ten days by a guy
by jhgb 5y ago
> I hate almost everything about JavaScript, its syntax, the decisions made and steps taken in its development
Well, one of them was done in ten days by a guy who liked Java and the other one was done in a few years by a guy who liked Smalltalk, so...
- regularfry 5y agoWhat he liked was Scheme, not Java. You can catch a whiff of it every now and then. He got told to give it a Java-like syntax by a PHB so they could ride on Sun's marketing coat-tails. And that's part of the problem: if what we'd started with was Java--, we might not have quite such a mess today.