> For example at first hardly anyone understood Closures At first, closures weren't even available. I mean, in 1.0 and 1.1 you could only declare global functi

> For example at first hardly anyone understood Closures At first, closures weren't even available. I mean, in 1.0 and 1.1 you could only declare global functions. 1.2 introduced function expressions and closures. That was June 1997; the language was still changing quite a bit and it wouldn't be until ECMA standardization that things would become stable and clear enough for people to use. (Even though there would still be huge differences across browsers for years)