Oh yeah, back when you had to use the invisible IFRAME trick. I used to think JS was a retarded language too, before I realized that "dynamic" languages are ju

Oh yeah, back when you had to use the invisible IFRAME trick. I used to think JS was a retarded language too, before I realized that "dynamic" languages are just as powerful and often far easier to work with than "static" ones. The browser environments in which JS is usually found don't make it easy to see the merits of the language itself, and the language itself has some annoying quirks, so I can understand why people would be reluctant to like it. But more and more I find myself wishing that I could use JavaScript as a general purpose scripting language like I tend to use Perl or Python today.