That's really interesting. I personally feel like JS as it was originally created is some sort of travesty (my apologies to those involved - I myself have writt

That's really interesting. I personally feel like JS as it was originally created is some sort of travesty (my apologies to those involved - I myself have written a tremendous amount of bad code under time pressure - and not under time pressure ;) ), but it definitely does allow for a lot of functional programming paradigms which is kind of nice. I don't know much about Lua or mruby but I understand they may fill such needs too. Also fun to note that John Backus was at IBM. I have some vague memories of BNF. I imagine that AT&T Bell Labs and IBM and Xerox were amazing places to work at one time. I do hope that things are generally trending for the better, in that ideas can be exchanged digitally, and that things are de facto more inclusive today, but I bet it would have been a heady thing to have a lounge filled with people like at those offices and then go back to your own office and noodle away on ideas that had been discussed.