> If there’s one language guilty of causing brain damage it’s surely JavaScript. In its detractors, you mean? (This was a perfectly reasonable comment until y

> If there’s one language guilty of causing brain damage it’s surely JavaScript. In its detractors, you mean? (This was a perfectly reasonable comment until you got irrational at the end; even people who understand Dijkstra's comment but feel that we lost something should be extremely pleased that the thing that took BASIC's place is a language that supports structured programming and is otherwise as nice as JS.)