"JavaScript has proven time and time again to not be a good language for anything but short scripts." Perhaps this is just troll bait... define short. Yeah,

"JavaScript has proven time and time again to not be a good language for anything but short scripts." Perhaps this is just troll bait... define short. Yeah, maybe javascript isn't good when building a large app with > 100K LOC that uses a bunch of existing code built in C. However, you sure as shit can built a very sophisticated product with javascript. Learn how to use prototypes and you have OO (or avoid that if you don't like it). Use modules (many ways to do this). geez. Maybe this just struck a cord with me because I am in the middle of a huge project that uses a metric shit-ton of configure scripts that seem screwed up six ways to sunday. I feel handicaped by all the BS that you have to do to get stuff working C++/java that is so trivial elsewhere.